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:''This article concerns the Libertarian presidential candidate.  For information on other people of the same name, see [[Edward Clark]].''
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'''Ed Clark''' was the [[Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] candidate for President in the 1980 presidential election.
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'''Ed Clark''' (born 1930) was the [[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] candidate for [[President of the United States]] in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1980|1980 presidential election]].  


In 1978, Clark received some 377,960 votes, 5.5% of the popular vote, in a [[California gubernatorial election, 1978|race for Governor of California]].
He was the first State Chair of the [[Libertarian Party of New York|New York Free Libertarian Party]] and upon relocating was elected the State Chair of the [[Libertarian Party of California]].  He was elected Vice Chair of the national party at the [[1972 National Convention]] in Denver, Colorado.


Clark is an honors graduate of [[Dartmouth College]] and received a law degree from [[Harvard Law School]].
In [[1978]], Clark received some 400,000 votes, 5 percent of the popular vote, in a race for Governor of California.


==1980 Presidential campaign==
In [[1980]] he won the Libertarian Party nomination for the Presidency at their party convention in Los Angeles, California. He published a book on his programs, entitled ''A [[New Beginning]]''. The book's introduction was by [[Eugene McCarthy]].  During the campaign, Clark positioned himself as a peace candidate and tailored his appeal to [[liberalism|liberals]] and [[progressivism|progressives]] unhappy with the resumption of [[Selective Service]] registration and the arms race with the [[Soviet Union]].  When asked in a television interview to summarize libertarianism, Clark used the phrase "[[Low-Tax Liberalism|low-tax liberalism]]," causing some consternation among traditional libertarian theorists, most notably [[Murray Rothbard]].  A growing split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction (including Clark) and a purist faction led by Rothbard eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention.


In 1980 he won the Libertarian Party nomination for the Presidency at their party convention in [[Los Angeles, California]]. He published a book on his programs, entitled "''A New Beginning''". The book's introduction was by [[Eugene McCarthy]].  During the campaign, Clark positioned himself as a peace candidate and tailored his appeal to [[liberalism|liberals]] and [[progressivism|progressives]] unhappy with the resumption of [[Selective Service]] registration and the [[arms race]] with the [[Soviet Union]].  When asked in a television interview to summarize libertarianism, Clark used the phrase "low-tax liberalism," causing some consternation among traditional libertarian theorists, most notably [[Murray Rothbard]].  A growing split within the Libertarian Party between a moderate faction (including Clark) and a radical faction led by Rothbard eventually came to a head in 1983, with the moderate faction walking out of the party convention.
Ed Clark's running mate in 1980 was [[David Koch]] of Koch Industries, who pledged part of his personal fortune to the campaign in exchange for the Vice Presidential nomination.


Ed Clark's running mate in 1980 was [[David H. Koch]] of [[Koch Industries]], who pledged part of his personal fortune to the campaign in exchange for the [[Vice President of the United States|vice-presidential]] nomination.
Clark received 921,299 votes and over 1% of the total nationwide; the highest number and percentage of popular votes a Libertarian party candidate has ever received in a presidential race.  His strongest support was in Alaska, where he came in third place with 11.66% of the vote, finishing ahead of independent candidate John Anderson and receiving almost half as many votes as Jimmy Carter.


Clark received 921,128 votes (1.06% of the total nationwide)[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1980&off=0&f=1]; the highest number and percentage of popular votes a Libertarian Party candidate has ever received in a presidential race. His strongest support was in [[Alaska]], where he came in third place with 11.66% of the vote, finishing ahead of [[Independent (politician)|independent]] candidate [[John B. Anderson|John Anderson]] and receiving almost half as many votes as [[Jimmy Carter]].
==Election results==
<center>'''Election results as a Libertarian candidate'''
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<th>Year</th>
<th>Office</th>
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<td>1980</td>
<td align="left">President of the United States</td>
<td align="right">921,299</td>
<td align="right">1.06%</td>
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