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Too bad he’s dead, we could really use him this time around! ;-)

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Harold Stassen is best known for being a perennial candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President of the United States, seeking it 13 times between 1940 and 2000 (1940, 1944, 1948, 1952, 1964, 1968, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992.

Stassen also ran for:[citation needed]
Dakota County District Attorney (he won in 1930 and 1934);
Governor of Minnesota on four occasions (he won on his first three attempts in 1938, 1940, and 1942, but was unsuccessful in 1982);
Governor of Pennsylvania twice (1958 & 1966);
United States Senate twice (1978 & 1994 in Minnesota);
Mayor of Philadelphia once (1959);
U.S. Representative (he was the Republican nominee against Bruce Vento of Minnesota in 1986).

Stassen’s strongest bid for the Republican presidential nomination was in 1948, when he won a series of upset victories in early primaries. His challenge to the front runner, New York Governor and 1944 G.O.P. presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey, was serious enough that Dewey challenged Stassen to a debate on the night before the Oregon Republican primary. The May 17 Dewey–Stassen debate was the first recorded modern debate between presidential candidates to take place in the United States. The debate, which concerned the criminalization of the Communist Party of the United States, was broadcast over the radio throughout the nation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stassen