Editing Roger MacBride (section)

==Political career==

===Vermont politics===
MacBride was elected to the [[Vermont House of Representatives]] in 1962 and served one term.<ref name="graveyard">[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/lawyer.M.html Lawyer Politicians in Virginia: Roger Lea MacBride (1929–1995)],  [[The Political Graveyard]]. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref> While in the state legislature, he proposed the abolition of the state college system.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 7, 2017|title=Roger Lea MacBride '51|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/roger-lea-macbride-51|access-date=October 22, 2020|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly|language=en}}</ref>

Running as a [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]] [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1665&dat=19640901&id=ucodAAAAIBAJ&pg=4888,15382| title=A Goldwater Man in Vermont | work=[[Times-News (Hendersonville, North Carolina)|The Times-News]]| date=September 1, 1964| access-date=July 25, 2012|author=Chamberlain, John|author-link=John Chamberlain (journalist)}}</ref> he made an unsuccessful bid for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] nomination for [[Governor of Vermont]] in 1964.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref name="graveyard"/><ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20130518023127/http://vermont-archives.org/govhistory/elect/primary/pdf/p1964.pdf  (1964) Primary Election Results]}}, Office of the Vermont Secretary of State. State Archives. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref>

===1972 electoral vote===
MacBride was the treasurer of the [[Republican Party of Virginia]] in 1972 and one of the party's electors when [[Richard Nixon]] won the popular vote for his second term as president of the United States.<ref name="faithless">{{cite web | url=http://blogs.roanoke.com/politics/2011/06/13/remembering-virginias-faithless-elector-of-1972/ | title=Remembering Virginia's "faithless" elector of 1972 | work=[[The Roanoke Times]] | date=June 13, 2011 | access-date=July 26, 2012 |author1=Adams, Mason |author2=Sluss, Michael }}</ref> MacBride, however, as a "[[faithless elector]]," voted for the nominees of the Libertarian Party: presidential candidate [[John Hospers]] and vice-presidential candidate [[Tonie Nathan]]. In doing so, MacBride made Nathan the first woman in U.S. history to receive an [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]] vote.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref name="faithless"/> Political pundit [[David Boaz]] later commented in ''[[Liberty (1987)|Liberty]]'' magazine that MacBride was "faithless to Nixon and [[Spiro Agnew|Agnew]], anyway, but faithful to the [[United States Constitution|constitutional]] principles Rose Wilder Lane had instilled in him."<ref name="Boaz">Boaz, David "Roger Lea MacBride, 1929–1995", ''[[Liberty (1987)|Liberty]]'', March 1995, p. 13.</ref>

===1976 presidential campaign===
[[File:Roger MacBride 1976 Campaign.jpg|thumb|170px|MacBride touring the [[Prudhoe Bay Oil Field]] during his presidential campaign in 1976]]
After casting his [[United States Electoral College|electoral vote]] in 1972,<ref name="Hamowy"/> MacBride gained favor within the fledgling Libertarian Party, which had been founded the previous year.<ref>Doherty, Brian (2008). ''[[Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement]]''. PublicAffairs. pp. 393–95.</ref>  As the Libertarian presidential nominee in 1976,<ref name="Merced"/> he achieved ballot access in 32 states,<ref name="Saxon"/> campaigning on a platform of support for a [[free market]] system, a return to the [[gold standard]], the abolition of the [[Federal Reserve]], an end to [[corporate welfare]], the abolition of the [[FCC]], a foreign policy of [[non-interventionism]], and the abolition of  [[victimless crime]]s.<ref>{{Cite web|title=MacBride's New Book|url=http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/libertarian-forum/lf-9-7.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330090328/http://rothbard.altervista.org/articles/libertarian-forum/lf-9-7.pdf|archive-date=March 30, 2017}}</ref> MacBride and his [[running mate]] [[David Bergland]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wPgeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6084,2170100&dq=roger-macbride+little+house+on+the+prairie+co-creator&hl=en | title=Libertarian candidate to visit | work=[[The Daily News (Kentucky)|Daily News]] | date=March 18, 1976 | access-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref> received 172,553 (0.2%) popular votes but no electoral votes. His best performance was in [[United States presidential election in Alaska, 1976|Alaska]], where he received 6,785 votes, or nearly 5.5%.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1976&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 "1976 Presidential General Election Results"], Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref>

===Republican Liberty Caucus===
MacBride rejoined the Republican Party in the 1980s and helped establish the [[Republican Liberty Caucus]], a group promoting [[Libertarianism in the United States|libertarian]] principles within the Republican Party.<ref name="freeman"/><ref>[http://www.rlc.org/Library/OrgDocs/rlcbrochure.pdf The Republican Liberty Caucus Library, ''Republican Liberty Caucus: Background and Early History'', Retrieved July 26, 2012.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609175016/http://www.rlc.org/Library/OrgDocs/rlcbrochure.pdf |date=June 9, 2012 }}</ref>
He chaired this group from 1992 until his death in 1995.<ref>[http://www.rlc.org/2011/02/20/history-of-our-movement/ The Republican Liberty Caucus, ''History of our Movement'', Retrieved July 26, 2012.]</ref>