A Professor Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, he was Chairman of the Economics Department at Case Western for six years and has degrees from both Harvard (Bachelor of Arts 1960) and Princeton (Doctor of Philosophy 1966) universities.
On November 12, 2005, the party made its endorsement of Peirce official The 2006 Peirce Ohio gubernatorial campaign was centered upon its "Freedom to Prosper" plan. The Peirce/Noble campaign filed a nominating petition with 13,394 signatures on May 1, 2006.
The law requires 5,000 valid signatures for an independent candidate for governor.
All 88 counties of Ohio were represented in the petition. When denied access to the debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor, Pierce created a news release, Blackwell, Strickland Chicken to Debate Pierce.
At the September 20, 2006 debate, two Peirce supporters dressed in chicken costumes bearing "Ken" and "Ted" nametags and danced in front of supporters. The two were arrested by the police, who claimed they walked into the street and disrupted traffic.
2006 election results.
