8-Time Presidential Candidate LaRouche Passes Away at 96
Thursday, February 14, 2019
Eight-time presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche passed away on Tuesday at the age of 96, according to the New York Times.
According to the Times, a cause or place of death was not specified.
About LaRouche
LaRouche was a political activist and founder of the LaRouche movement, whose main organization was the National Caucus of Labor Committees.
The New York Times reports that by the mid-1970s, his organization had 37 offices in North America and 26 in Europe and Latin America.
LaRouche was a presidential candidate in every election from 1976 to 2004, running one time for his own U.S. Labor Party and event times for the Democratic Party nomination.
In his first run at President in 1976, LaRouche ran as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and polled 40,043 votes (0.05 percent).
In 1980, he beat out Governor Jerry Brown of California by 1,000 votes to win the Democratic Presidential Primary in Connecticut.
According to the Times, he would go on to receive thousands of votes in each future campaign.
LaRouche was born in Rochester, New Hampshire on September 8, 1922.