Andre Marrou

Infobox State Representative
name=Andre Verne Marrou
state_house=Alaska
district=05-B
term_start=January 3 1985
term_end=January 3 1987
predecessor=Milo Fritz
successor=Mike Navarre
candidate2=Vice President of the United States
term_start2=November 8 1988
runningmate2=Ron Paul
opponent2=Dan Quayle (R)
Lloyd Bentsen (D)
James Stockdale (I)
incumbent2=George H. W. Bush (R)
candidate3=President of the United States
term_start3=November 4 1992
runningmate3=Nancy Lord
opponent3=Bill Clinton (D)
George H. W. Bush (R)
Ross Perot (I)
Bo Gritz (Populist)
incumbent3=George H. W. Bush (R)
birth_date=birth date and age|1938|12|4
birth_place=Texas, United States
party=Libertarian
education=Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1962)

Andre Verne Marrou (born December 4 1938) is an American political figure, affiliated with the Libertarian Party.

Born in Nixon, Texas, he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.

One of twelve Libertarians to be elected to a state legislature, Marrou served in the Alaska House of Representatives for one term, from 1984 to 1986.

He was the party's vice-presidential nominee in the 1988 election; on the ballot in 46 states and the District of Columbia,cite web|url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0712FB3E5C0C748DDDA90994D0484D81|title=Now for a Real Underdog: Ron Paul, Libertarian, for President|date=1988-10-17|work=New York Times|accessdate=2008-03-21|author=Rosenthal, Andrew] U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and Marrou placed third in the popular vote with 432,179 votes (0.5%),cite news|title=A Cheerful Anachronism|url=http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=177422&Disp=41&Trace=on|author=Will, George F|date=2007-02-18|accessdate=2008-03-17|work=Newsweek] behind Bush-Quayle and Dukakis-Bentsen. [cite web|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEEDB103AF93AA15751C1A96E948260&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fPeople%2fP%2fPaul%2c%20Ron|title=1988 VOTE: The Final Word|date=1988-12-29|work=New York Times|accessdate=2008-03-21] Paul and Marrou were kept off the ballot in Missouri, and received votes there only when written in, due to what the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch" called a "technicality". [cite web|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_text_direct-0=0EB3294736B1152B&p_field_direct-0=document_id|title=If You Don't Like Bush Or Dukakis|date=1988-11-07|work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch|accessdate=2008-03-22|author=Nugent, Franklin M.|page=3C]

In the 1992 election, Marrou was the party's presidential nominee, receiving 291,627 votes (0.28%).

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* [http://alumweb.mit.edu/classes/1962/techrev/9903.html Short notes on members of the 1962 MIT class]