Linda Jenness

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candidate = President of the United States
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runningmate = Andrew Pulley
opponent = Richard Nixon (R)
George McGovern (D)
John Hospers (Libertarian)
John G. Schmitz (AI)
Benjamin Spock (People's)
incumbent = Richard Nixon (R)
birth_date = 1941
birth_place = Atlanta, Georgia
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party = Socialist Workers
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Linda Jenness (born 1941 [ [http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=4491 Our Campaigns - Candidate - Linda Jenness] ] ) was a Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States in the 1972 election. She received 83,380 votes (vs. 47,169,911 for Richard Nixon).In Arizona, Pima and Yavapai counties had a ballot malfunction that counted many votes for both a major party candidate and Linda Jenness. A court ordered that the ballots be counted for both. As a consequence, Jenness received 16% and 8% of the vote in Pima and Yavapai, respectively. 30,579 of her 30,945 Arizona votes are from those two counties. Some sources don't count these votes for Jenness.]

In 1972, Jenness, Vice Presidential candidate Andrew Pulley, and People's Party candidates Benjamin Spock and Julius Hobson wrote to Major General Bert A. David, commanding officer of Fort Dix in New Jersey asking for permission to distribute campaign literature and to hold an election-related campaign meeting. Based on Fort Dix regulations 210-26 and 210-27, General David refused the request. Ultimately the case made its way to the United States Supreme Court (424 U.S. 828 -- Greer, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., v. Spock et al, which ruled against the plaintiffs).

Aged 31 at time of the election, she did not meet the Constitutional age requirement to hold the office of President, but the SWP was on the ballot in 25 states - six more than in 1968. She qualified for the Ohio ballot but was removed when she could not prove she was 35. [ [http://www.jofreeman.com/politics/womprez03.htm The Women Who Ran for President] ]

Jenness had previously been the party's candidate for Governor of Georgia in 1970. She had collected 88,175 signatures in order to get on the ballot. Jenness, the SWP and two other candidates of the party brought a lawsuit "Jenness v. Fortson" 403 U.S. 431 (1971) regarding Georgia's ballot access standards, a case about which it has been said that it "continues to haunt the jurisprudence of ballot access law" (Raskin 2003, page 103).

She had also been involved in the case 26 F.C.C.2d 485 (1970), regarding media coverage of third-party candidates.

Books

Linda Jenness has authored several books and pamphlets, or provided introductions. Some of these are as follows:

* Jenness, Linda and Castro, Fidel (1970). "Woman & The Cuban Revolution" Pathfinder Press
* Jenness, Linda (1972). "Socialism and democracy; a speech by Linda Jenness, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, 1972". Pathfinder Press ISBN 0-87348-280-8
* Jenness, Linda (1973). "Feminism and Socialism". Pathfinder Press ISBN 1-199-12398-6
* Jenness, Linda and Andrew Pulley (1973). Introduction to "Watergate: The View from the Left - Unpublicized Facts About Government Attacks on Dissenters and the Socialists; Strategy for Fighting Back" Pathfinder Press
* Jenness, Linda (1975). "Last Hired, First Fired: Affirmative Action VS. Seniority"

ee also

*List of female United States presidential and vice-presidential candidates

Notes

References

* Raskin, Jamin (2003). "Overruling Democracy; The Supreme Court Versus the American People"
* [http://www.justia.us/us/424/828/case.html 424 U.S. 828 -- Greer, Commander, Fort Dix Military Reservation, et al., v. Spock et al]
* [http://www.search.eb.com/elections/etable3.html Results, 1972 American Presidential Election]

Further reading

* [http://www.mises.org/journals/lf/1972/1972_12.pdf Interview in Libertarian Forum, December 1972 (pdf)]