Roger MacBride

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In politics, MacBride served a single term as a Republican member of the Vermont House of Representatives in the 1960s. When serving as a Republican presidential elector in Virginia in 1972, he defected from his pledged vote and became a faithless elector, casting a vote for the Libertarian Party's inaugural ticket of John Hospers for president and Tonie Nathan for vice president. Four years later, the party nominated him as their presidential candidate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Merced">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BackgroundEdit

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) "Roger MacBride, 65, Libertarian And 'Little House' Heir, Is Dead", The New York Times. Retrieved June 15, 2011.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He called himself "the adopted grandson" of a family friend, writer and libertarian political theorist Rose Wilder Lane,<ref name="freeman">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> whom he met when he was 14 years of age.<ref name="ghost">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, noted author of the 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"/>

Law careerEdit

MacBride worked for White & Case, a law firm on Wall Street, for several years before opening a small practice in Vermont.<ref name="Saxon"/> By the mid-1970s, MacBride had relocated to Virginia and was no longer practicing law full time.<ref name="Merced"/>

Writing and television producing careerEdit

MacBride was designated by Rose Wilder Lane as her heir. He gained control of her literary estate on her death in 1968. In 1971 he published The First Four Years. In 1974 he edited and published Laura Ingalls Wilder's letters to her husband Almanzo as West From Home. He approved the creation of the television series in the 1970s.<ref name = Saxon/> He was the credited author of a fictionalized series on the life of Rose Wilder Lane.<ref name="Roger Lea MacBride"/> He was author of record for three additional Little House books and launched the Rocky Ridge Years series of children's novels, describing Lane's Ozark childhood.<ref name="Saxon"/><ref name="freeman"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He published two books on constitutional law, The American Electoral College and Treaties versus the Constitution,<ref name="Hamowy">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> and authored a Libertarian Party manifesto: A New Dawn for America: The Libertarian Challenge.<ref name="Saxon"/>

In the 1970s, MacBride co-created the television series Little House on the Prairie and served as a co-producer for the show.<ref name="Merced"/><ref name="freeman"/>

Political careerEdit

Vermont politicsEdit

MacBride was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1962 and served one term.<ref name="graveyard">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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Running as a Goldwater Republican,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> he made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican Party nomination for Governor of Vermont in 1964.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref name="graveyard"/><ref>Template:Usurped, Office of the Vermont Secretary of State. State Archives. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref>

1972 electoral voteEdit

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">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 Electoral College vote.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref name="faithless"/> Political pundit David Boaz later commented in Liberty magazine that MacBride was "faithless to Nixon and Agnew, anyway, but faithful to the constitutional principles Rose Wilder Lane had instilled in him."<ref name="Boaz">Boaz, David "Roger Lea MacBride, 1929–1995", Liberty, March 1995, p. 13.</ref>

1976 presidential campaignEdit

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MacBride touring the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field during his presidential campaign in 1976

After casting his 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 crimes.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> MacBride and his running mate David Bergland<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> received 172,553 (0.2%) popular votes but no electoral votes. His best performance was in Alaska, where he received 6,785 votes, or nearly 5.5%.<ref name="Hamowy"/><ref>"1976 Presidential General Election Results", Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved July 25, 2012.</ref>

Republican Liberty CaucusEdit

MacBride rejoined the Republican Party in the 1980s and helped establish the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group promoting libertarian principles within the Republican Party.<ref name="freeman"/><ref>The Republican Liberty Caucus Library, Republican Liberty Caucus: Background and Early History, Retrieved July 26, 2012. Template:Webarchive</ref> He chaired this group from 1992 until his death in 1995.<ref>The Republican Liberty Caucus, History of our Movement, Retrieved July 26, 2012.</ref>

Personal life and deathEdit

MacBride married Susan Ford. They then adopted a baby whom they named Abigail MacBride.<ref name="Roger Lea MacBride">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

MacBride died of heart failure at his home in Miami Beach, Florida, on March 5, 1995, at the age of 65.<ref name="Saxon"/> He willed his estate, including the rights to the Little House franchise, to his daughter.<ref name = Margolis>Margolis, Rick (June 1, 2001) "Settlement on 'Little House' Books", School Library Journal. Retrieved July 26, 2012. Template:Webarchive</ref> In 1999, this was challenged by the public library system of Wright County, Missouri, containing the Laura Ingalls Wilder Library in Wilder's hometown of Mansfield; they contended that her will gave her daughter ownership of the literary estate for her lifetime only, and that all rights should have reverted to the library after Rose Wilder Lane's death in 1968.<ref>Langton, James (November 29, 1999) "Library claims rights to `Little House' books", Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved July 26, 2012.</ref> The estate was estimated to be worth around $100 million at the time.<ref name = Margolis/> In 2001, a settlement was reached in which the Wright County library system was paid $875,000, but control of the estate remained with the MacBride family.<ref name = Margolis/>

In an obituary for MacBride, David Boaz wrote: "In some ways he was the last living link to the best of the Old Right, the rugged-individualist, anti-New Deal, anti-interventionist spirit of Rep. Howard Buffett, Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken, Isabel Paterson, and Lane."<ref name="Boaz"/>

Partial bibliographyEdit

Series on the early life of Rose Wilder
- Little House on Rocky Ridge (1993)
- Little Farm in the Ozarks (1994)
- In the Land of the Big Red Apple (1995)
- On the Other Side of the Hill (1995)
- Little Town in the Ozarks (1996)
- New Dawn on Rocky Ridge (1997)
- On the Banks of the Bayou (1998)
- Bachelor Girl (1999)
A New Dawn for America: the Libertarian Challenge

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Template:LCAuth (previous page of browse report, under 'MacBride, Roger Lea, 1929–' without '1995')
Interview with Roger Lea MacBride about Little House on Rocky Ridge, All Abut Kids! TV Series #143 (1993)
Interview with Roger Lea MacBride about The Little Farm in the Ozarks, All About Kids! TV Series #186 (1994)

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