Bill Shearer

Career

Shearer received 65,847 votes (1 percent). Shearer died at the age of seventy-five in San Diego. William Knowland, rather than running again for the United States Senate, lost the 1958 gubernatorial race to the Democrat Edmund G. Brown, Senior

Eileen Shearer was the vice-presidential candidate of the AIP in 1980.

She ran with former United States Representative John Rarick of Louisiana"s 6th congressional district. The Shearers" daughter, Nancy Spirkoff Chiasson, was the state chairman of the Constitution Party from 2004 to 2006.

Achievements

• In 1970, Shearer was the California AIP"s first gubernatorial candidate in the race in which Ronald W. Reagan won a second term by defeating the Democrat, Jess Unruh.