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Ed Clark - Definition and Overview

Ed Clark was the Libertarian candidate for President of the United States in the 1980 presidential election.

Ed Clark, from the back cover of his 1980 book "A New Beginning"

Clark was 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.

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.

Clark received just under 1 million votes and over 1% of the total; the highest number and percentage of popular votes a Libertarian party candidate has ever received in a presidential race.


Preceded by:
Roger MacBride 		Libertarian Party Presidential candidate (lost)
1980 		Succeeded by:
David Bergland



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