In early November of 2008 we have just ended a long campaign for President of the United States. Here at Babson we have an association with campaigns for the White House. In 1940, our founder, Roger W. Babson, ran for President of the United States as a candidate of the New Prohibition Party. The party was much more broadly reform-oriented than its name might suggest. Mr. Babson and his running mate Edgar V. Moorman ran a vigourous campaign but received only 57,903 of the 49,903,113 votes cast. Mr. Babson writes of the experience in the 1949 edition of his autobiography Actions and Reactions (p. 299-316) and in a book Our Campaign for the Presidency which is available in the Babson Collection (E811.B2 1941) in the Horn Library.
R. C. (Rip) Rybnikar
Babson College Archives
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