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==Background== MacBride was born in 1929 in [[New Rochelle, New York]], the son of Elise Fairfax (Lea) and William Burt MacBride, an editor.<ref name="Saxon">Saxon, Wolfgang (March 8, 1995) [https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/08/obituaries/roger-macbride-65-libertarian-and-little-house-heir-is-dead.html "Roger MacBride, 65, Libertarian And 'Little House' Heir, Is Dead"], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved June 15, 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Riggenbach|first=Jeff|title=The Libertarian Legacy of Rose Wilder Lane|journal=Mises Daily|date=April 14, 2010|url=https://mises.org/daily/4235/The-Libertarian-Legacy-of-Rose-Wilder-Lane|publisher=[[Ludwig von Mises Institute]]|quote=Transcribed from 'Roger MacBride and Rose Wilder Lane: A Libertarian Legacy'}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cataumetcemetery.org/?page_id=4202|title=Annie Elise Wing Lea 1873β1935 |website=www.cataumetcemetery.org|access-date=April 16, 2018}}</ref> He called himself "the adopted grandson" of a family friend, writer and libertarian [[political theorist]] [[Rose Wilder Lane]],<ref name="freeman">{{cite web | url=http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/cast-a-giant-ballot/ | title=Cast a Giant Ballot: Roger MacBride Made the Libertarian Party the Most Important Third Party in America | work=[[The Freeman]] | date=October 1997 | access-date=July 27, 2012 | author=Thies, Clifford F.}}</ref> whom he met when he was 14 years of age.<ref name="ghost">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inodj1jyRtkC&q=a+ghost+in+the+little+house |title=The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane | publisher=[[University of Missouri Press]] | author=Holtz, William | year=1995 | pages=323, 373 | isbn= 9780826210159}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hxHtqKoxI7YC&q=%22roger+macbride%22+brian+doherty |title=Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement | publisher=[[PublicAffairs]] | author=Doherty, Brian | author-link=Brian Doherty (journalist) | year=2008 | page=131 | isbn=978-1586485726}}</ref> Lane, daughter of [[Laura Ingalls Wilder]], noted author of the [[Little House on the Prairie|''Little House'' series]] of books, designated MacBride as her "political disciple," [[executor]], and sole [[heir]].<ref name="Saxon"/> MacBride was a graduate of [[Princeton University]] and [[Harvard Law School]].<ref name="Saxon"/>
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