Background
Dodge, Earl Farwell was born on December 24, 1932 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Earl Farwell Dodge and Dorothy Mae (Harris) Hook.
Dodge, Earl Farwell was born on December 24, 1932 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Earl Farwell Dodge and Dorothy Mae (Harris) Hook.
Educational public schools, Malden graduate, Narcotic Education Institute, Evanston, Illinois.
He was appointed Chairman of the Prohibition Party in 1979 while the party was operating under the name of the National Statesmen Party. The party name was re-instated following the 1980 election. In addition to his work with the Prohibition Party, Dodge was active in various other temperance organizations, as well as the Right to life movement, and in several political memorabilia collecting organizations.
In his later years, Dodge began to make a living producing political items.
The following is a list of his candidacies:
1954 – Massachusetts Governor"s Council – 5,459 votes
1956 – Massachusetts Secretary of State – 10,030 votes
1958 –Kosciusko County Commissioner, Indiana
1959 - Winona Lake, Indiana Council – 42%
1960 – United States. House (Indiana-2) – 553 votes
1966 – United States Senate from Kansas – 9,364 votes
1968 – Presidential Elector from Michigan – 60 votes as write-in on East. Harold Munn slate
1969 – Kalamazoo, Michigan City Commission – 6,470 votes
1974 – Governor of Colorado – 6,419 votes
1976 – Vice President of the United States – 15,934 votes
1978 – Governor of Colorado &ndash" 2,198 votes
1980 – Vice President of the United States – 7,212 votes
1982 – Governor of Colorado – 3,496 votes
1984 – President of the United States – 4,242 votes
1986 – Governor of Colorado – 8,183 votes
1988 – President of the United States – 8,002 votes
1990 – United States Senate from Colorado – 11,801 votes
1992 – President of the United States – 935 votes
1994 – Governor of Colorado – 7,722 votes
1996 – President of the United States – 1,298 votes
1998 – Regent At Large, Colorado State University – 9,930 votes
2000 – President of the United States - Candidate in the Independent American Primary – 480 votes
2000 – President of the United States – 208 votes
2004 – President of the United States - Candidate in his new secessionist National Prohibition Party – 140 votes
Dodge was re-nominated in 2007 by his faction for a seventh run for president However, he died of cardiac arrhythmia nearly a year before the election, at the Denver International Airport while waiting to board a flight.
Dodge was waiting to board a flight en route from Denver International Airport to Pennsylvania, when he suddenly collapsed. Doctors confirmed it was cardiac arrhythmia.
He died on November 7, 2007.
Member Community Relations Board, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1968-1971. Secretary-treasurer Right to Life Education Fund, Denver, since 1982. President National Civic League Inc., Denver, since 1972.
Candidate for various offices on Prohibition ticket, including president of the United States, 1984, 88, 92. Deacon Arvada Baptist Church, since 1986. Member Sons of the American Revolution (president Colorado society 1987-1988).
Married Barbara V. Dodge, July 20, 1951. Children: Earl F., Barbara F., Allen C., Faith D., Karen J., Calvin G., Michael R.