Editing Faithless elector (section)

===1948 to 1988===
'''1''' – [[1948 United States presidential election|1948 election]]: Tennessee Elector [[Preston Parks]] was a candidate to be an elector for both the Democratic Party presidential candidate, [[Harry S. Truman]], and the [[States' Rights Democratic Party]] presidential candidate, [[Strom Thurmond]]. Though the national Democratic Party won the election, Parks had actively campaigned for Thurmond and he voted for Thurmond and his running mate [[Fielding L. Wright]].<ref name="Edwards" />

'''1''' – [[1956 United States presidential election|1956 election]]: Alabama Elector [[W. F. Turner]], pledged for Democrats [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] and [[Estes Kefauver]], cast his votes for Judge [[Walter Burgwyn Jones]] and [[Herman Talmadge]], the former [[Governor of Georgia]].<ref name="Edwards" />

'''1''' – [[1960 United States presidential election|1960 election]]: Oklahoma Elector [[Henry D. Irwin]], pledged for Republicans [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.]], contacted the other 219 Republican electors to convince them to cast presidential electoral votes for Democratic non-candidate [[Harry F. Byrd]] and vice-presidential electoral votes for Republican [[Barry Goldwater]]. Most replied they had a moral obligation to vote for Nixon and Lodge, while Irwin voted for Byrd and Goldwater. Fourteen [[unpledged elector]]s (eight from Mississippi and six from Alabama) also voted for Byrd for president, but supported [[Strom Thurmond]] for vice president – since they were not pledged to anyone, their action was not faithless.<ref name="Edwards" />

'''1''' – [[1968 United States presidential election|1968 election]]: North Carolina Elector [[Lloyd W. Bailey]], pledged for Republicans [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Spiro Agnew]], cast his votes for [[American Independent Party]] candidates [[George Wallace]] and [[Curtis LeMay]]. Bailey later stated at a Senate hearing that he would have voted for Nixon and Agnew if his vote would have altered the outcome of the election.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.avagara.com/e_c/ec_unfaithful.htm#Bailey|title=Tales of the Unfaithful Electors: Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey|work=EC: The US Electoral College Web Zine|access-date=2008-05-17 |url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509192439/http://www.avagara.com:80/e_c/ec_unfaithful.htm|archive-date=2008-05-09}}</ref>

'''1''' – [[1972 United States presidential election|1972 election]]: Virginia Elector [[Roger MacBride]], pledged for Republicans [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Spiro Agnew]], cast his electoral votes for [[United States Libertarian Party|Libertarian]] candidates [[John Hospers]] and [[Tonie Nathan]]. MacBride's vice-presidential vote for Nathan was the first electoral vote cast for a woman in U.S. history.<ref name="first">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Boaz |first=David |author-link=David Boaz |editor-first=Ronald |editor-last=Hamowy |editor-link=Ronald Hamowy |encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism |title=Nathan, Toni (1923– ) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yxNgXs3TkJYC&q=encyclopedia+of+libertarianism |doi=10.4135/9781412965811.n212 |year=2008 |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]]; [[Cato Institute]] |location=Thousand Oaks, CA |isbn=978-1-4129-6580-4 |oclc=750831024 |lccn=2008009151 |chapter=Nathan, Tonie (1923-) |pages=347|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

'''1''' – [[1976 United States presidential election|1976 election]]: Washington Elector [[Mike Padden]], pledged for Republicans [[Gerald Ford]] and [[Bob Dole]], cast his presidential electoral vote for [[Ronald Reagan]], who had challenged Ford for the Republican nomination. He cast his vice presidential vote, as pledged, for Dole.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Edwards|first1=George C.|title=Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America: Second Edition|date=2011}}</ref>

'''1''' – [[1988 United States presidential election|1988 election]]: West Virginia Elector [[Margarette Leach]], pledged for Democrats [[Michael Dukakis]] and [[Lloyd Bentsen]], instead cast her votes for the candidates in the reverse of their positions on the national ticket as a form of protest against the winner-take-all custom of the Electoral College; her presidential vote went to Bentsen and her vice-presidential vote to Dukakis.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Sharen Shaw |date=January 5, 1989 |title=Capital Line: [Final Edition] |work= USA Today  |quote=Even though Bensten sought the vice presidency, Margarette Leach of West Virginia voted for him to protest the Electoral College's winner-take-all custom.|id={{ProQuest|306154768}} }}</ref>