Rutherford Decker

Rutherford Losey Decker (May 17, 1904 – September 1972) was a United States politician, a longtime member and a Presidential nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960, and the President of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1946 to 1948.[1]

Decker was born in Elmira, New York.[2] He was a missionary at the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and preached in Fort Morgan, Colorado and in Denver, Colorado.[2] He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, until he retired in the 1960s.[2][3]

A lifelong resident of Missouri, he was nominated for President with party chairman Earle Harold Munn as his running-mate.

Decker and Munn finished fifth with 46,203 (0.07%) votes (and no one electoral vote). Munn succeeded Decker as a presidential nominee in 1964. They appeared on ballots in 11 states: Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana and Montana. Decker and Munn never received over 1% of the vote in any of these states.

Electoral history

United States presidential election, 1960

References

  1. ↑ Political Graveyard
  2. 1 2 3 Prohibitionists
  3. ↑ Our Campaigns
Preceded by
Leslie Roy Marston		 President of the National Association of Evangelicals
1946–1948 		Succeeded by
Stephen W. Paine
Party political offices
Preceded by
Enoch A. Holtwick		 Prohibition Party Presidential nominee
1960 (lost) 		Succeeded by
Earle Harold Munn


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