Career
A 64-year-old resident (as of February 2008) of Weymouth, Massachusetts he is a retired corporate attorney. He never held a public office, but is frequently involved in political campaigns. Vice Presidential primary is a very low key event and usually no prominent candidate participated.
Vice Presidential primary also have no impact on nomination process.
Many of them, however, winning as write-ins (just as Estes Kefauver, First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore, or John Edwards). During a campaign, his bumper stickers "Vote for Ray Stebbins, Vice President", included phrases "easy to remove" and "so you wouldn’t have it on there for years".
Stebbins cited Harry Truman as his political hero and favorite Vice President.