Background
Decker was born in Elmira, New New York
Decker was born in Elmira, New New York
He was a missionary at the American Baptist Home Mission Society, and preached in Fort Morgan, Colorado and in Denver, Colorado. He also preached at the Temple Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, until he retired in the 1960s. A lifelong resident of Missouri, he was nominated for President with party chairman Earle Harold Munn as his running-mate.
Decker and Munn finished fifth with 46,203 (007%) votes (and no one electoral vote).
Munn succeeded Decker as a presidential nominee in 1964. They appeared on ballots in 11 states: Alabama, Delaware, Michigan, California, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee, New Mexico, Kansas, Indiana and Montana.
Decker and Munn never received over 1% of the vote in any of these states. United States presidential election, 1960
John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (Doctorate) - 34,226,731 (4972%) and 303 electoral votes (22 states carried)
Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge, Junior.
(R) - 34,108,157 (4955%) and 219 electoral votes (26 states carried)
Rutherford Decker/Earle Harold Munn (Prohibition) - 46,203 (007%)
Orval East. Faubus/John G. Crommelin (National States" Rights Party) - 44,984 (007%).
Eric Hass/Georgia Cozzini (Socialist Labor) - 47,522 (007%).
