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Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. (December 24, 1932 – November 7, 2007) was an American politician who served as the Prohibition Party's chairman and presidential candidate from the 1984 to 2000 presidential elections and later ran with the nomination of his own faction during the 2004 presidential election.
Life
Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was born on December 24, 1932, to Earl Farwell and Dorothy May Harris in Malden, Massachusetts. He attened school until the ninth grade and on July 20, 1951, he married Barbara Regan. In 1952, the joined the Prohibition Party after attending a rally hosted by future Prohibition vice-presidential nominee Mark R. Shaw.
From 1958 to 1962, he served as the co-chairman of the Prohibition Party under E. Harold Munn. In 1979, he was selected to served as the chairman of the National Statesman Party, which the Prohibition Party had changed its name to in 1977, and served until 2003. In addition to his work with the Prohibition Party, Dodge was active in various other temperance organizations, as well as the right to life movement, and in several political memorabilia collecting organizations. In his later years, Dodge began to make a living producing political items.
Presidential
During the 1976 and 1980 presidential elections he was given the vice-presidential nomination of the Prohibition Party. On June 24, 1983, forty five delegates voted to give Dodge the presidential nomination in Mandan, North Dakota.
2004 and 2008 presidential campaigns
In 2003, he was promoted to chairman emeritus, as a polite way of firing him according to James Hedges, and during the 2004 presidential election his faction of the party gave him its presidential nomination at his home in Lakewood, Colorado. In the general election he appeared on the ballot in Colorado and received 140 votes.
On June 12, 2007, members of his faction from three states met in a church in Arvada, Colorado where they nominated him for president and Howard Lydic, who received the vice-presidential nomination in 2004, for vice-president. On November 7, Dodge was waiting to board a flight en route from Denver International Airport to Pennsylvania, when he suddenly collapsed due to a cardiac arrhythmia and was taken to the University of Colorado Hospital where he died. Following Dodge's death Howard Lydick worked to unite the two factions of the Prohibition Party behind Gene Amondson before Lydick's own death on August 5, 2008.