Lowell Jackson "Jack" Fellure (born October 3, 1931) is an American perennial political candidate and retired engineer. He was the presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party for the 2012 presidential election.
Campaigns
Fellure has formally campaigned for President of the United States in every presidential election since 1988 as a member of the Republican Party.[1] He asserts on his campaign website that his platform based on the 1611 Authorized King James Bible has never changed.[2] As a candidate, he calls for the elimination of the liquor industry, abortion and pornography, and advocates the teaching of the Bible in public schools and criminalization of homosexuality.[1] He has blamed the ills of society on those he has characterized as "atheists, Marxists, liberals, queers, liars, draft dodgers, flag burners, dope addicts, sex perverts and anti-Christians."[3]
In 1992, Fellure filed to run in the New Hampshire, West Virginia and Kansas Republican primaries. By November 1991, he had spent $40,000 of his own money on the campaign, and he sent a King James Bible to the Federal Election Commission as a copy of his platform.[4] Regarding the 1611 English version of the Bible, translated by 47 Church of England scholars at the request of King James, he said, "God wrote it as the supreme document and final authority in the affairs of all men, nations and civilizations, for time and eternity... It shall never be necessary to change it."[4] He received 36 votes in the New Hampshire primary and complained that President George H.W. Bush and commentator Pat Buchanan were receiving all the media attention.[5]
During the 1996 presidential election while running for the Republican Party presidential nomination, he criticized former President George H.W. Bush as a man "responsible for inestimable damage toward the destruction of this sovereign democratic constitutional republic [who] continued to water the seeds of international, Satanic Marxism to the exclusion of our national sovereignty".[3] He added that President Bill Clinton "merely shifted into overdrive the socialistic, Marxist New World Order agenda."[3] In the general election, Fellure received one write-in vote in Idaho.[6]
He again ran in 2000,[7] and in 2004, challenged incumbent President George W. Bush for the Republican Party nomination. He was the only candidate to appear alongside Bush in the North Dakota caucus, as he met the Federal Election Commission requirement of $5,000 in receipts. He lost all 26 delegates to Bush.[8]
Prohibition Party 2012
After another run in 2008, Fellure initially ran for the Republican Party's 2012 presidential nomination.[7] He then decided to seek the nomination of the Prohibition Party at the party's national convention in Cullman, Alabama.[9] Fellure was nominated for president on the second ballot,[10] beating out former Thompson Township tax assessor and longtime Prohibition Party activist James Hedges of Pennsylvania. Party chairman Toby Davis was named as his running mate.[1] The ticket appeared on the ballot only in Louisiana and received 518 votes on Election Day.[11]
Return to Republican Party
In October 2012, Fellure filed with the FEC to run for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination.[12]
Personal life
Fellure was born in Midkiff, West Virginia, in 1931.[13] He resides in Hurricane, West Virginia, with his wife Jean, and is the father of six children.[13]
See also
- King James Version only
- Radical Right
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Prohibition Party holds convention; nominates Jack Fellure for U.S. President". Wikinews. June 23, 2011. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ "Jack Fellure 2012 - The Sword of 1611". Sword of 1611. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ivins, Molly (January 6, 1996). "Too Much Government made lives better". Star-News. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pollack, Neal (November 6, 1991). "The Not-so-Front-Runners". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
- ↑ "West Virginia man garners 36 votes in N.H. primary". Williamson Daily News. February 21, 1992. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Bickford, Robert (October 7, 1998). "1996 -- Presidential Votes by State". Ballot Access News. Robert Bickford. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Reports Image Index for Candidate ID: P20000089". Federal Elections Commission. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Winter, Deena (February 3, 2004). "Democrats happy with N.D. turnout". The Bismarck Tribune. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Bullard, Benjamin (June 23, 2011). "Prohibition Party meets in Cullman". The Cullman Times. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ "Prohibition Party Nomines Jack Fellure for President". Ballot Access News. Richard Winger. June 22, 2011. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ↑ "OFFICIAL 2012 PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS" (PDF). FEC. January 17, 2013. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Jack Fellure 2016 FEC Statement of Candidacy" (PDF). Federal Election Commission. November 7, 2012. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Lowell Jackson 'Jack' Fellure - Biography". Project Vote Smart. 2002–2010. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
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