J. Marshall Coleman

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J. Marshall Coleman is a Republican politician in Virginia who ran for several statewide offices from the late 1970s to early 1990s. Coleman was elected Virginia attorney general in 1977, and as the GOP nominee for governor in 1981, he lost to Democrat Charles S. Robb. Coleman was the Republican nominee for governor in 1989, losing to Democrat L. Douglas Wilder, the first African-American ever elected governor of a U.S. state. In 1994, Coleman ran for U.S. Senate as an independent, seeking to seize the middle ground between Robb, who had been elected to the Senate in 1988, and the GOP nominee, Oliver North. Robb was reelected. Coleman finished third, despite widespread dislike among voters of North, who had been convicted for his role in the Iran-Contra Affair and Robb, who faced allegations of womanizing.

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