1936 Presidential Nominee
William Lemke, a U.S. Congressman from North Dakota, was chosen as the party's nominee for the 1936 Presidential election. Lemke received 892,378 votes nationwide, or less than 2 percent of the total popular vote, and no electoral votes. However, even this meager showing was among the best for a U.S. third party between the 1924 Progressives and the 1948 Dixiecrats, although, according to Svend Petersen's "A Statistical History of the American Presidential Elections," Norman Thomas' percentage in 1932 was 2.23 percent.
The vice-presidential nominee was Thomas C. O'Brien, a labor lawyer from Boston.
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