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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Lloyd W. Bailey |
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Rocky Mount, North Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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Unknown
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Thomas Walker
Dec 22, 2005 09:09pm |
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The John Birch Society -
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| Info | Dr. Bailey was a Republican-pledged elector from North Carolina who voted instead for George Wallace, the American party candidate. Bailey was nominated as elector at the state party convention, but he claimed that nobody talked to him about a commitment to vote for a particular candidate. There was no formal pledge. He also claimed that he forgot all about it until a party official reminded him of his electoral duties.
As the time for the election drew near, Bailey was disturbed that President-elect Nixon was appointing men like Henry Kissinger and Daniel Moynihan to office and that he had asked Chief Justice Earl Warren to stay on until June of 1969. He decided to lodge his protest by voting for Wallace.
Bailey excused himself by saying that the congressional district he resided in had voted for Wallace, and that he was giving them a voice. But when pressed by Strom Thurmond at a Senate hearing, Bailey indicated that it was purely a protest, and that he wouldn't have done it if it would have made a difference in the outcome of the election.
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