Walt Brown
Presidential Candidates
POLITICAL
Oregon State Senator, 1975-87 (served as a Democrat). Malheur County Counsel, 1989-91 (served as a Democrat). Member, Socialist Party USA since 1948. Founded the Socialist Party of Oregon, 1992. Socialist Party USA nominee for Congress in 1998 (6%), 2000 (2%) and 2002 (3%). Legal Counsel, Socialist Party USA.
PROFESSIONAL Semi-retired attorney, currently. Deputy District Attorney, 1989-91. Former Professor, Northwestern Law School. US Navy & US Navy Reserve, 1944-70 (World War II veteran; retired at the rank of Commander). Aircraft riveter, mailman, construction worker and warehouseman (before attending college).
EDUCATION
B.A. and J.D., University of Southern California. M.A. in Government, Boston University. M.L.S., University of Oregon. Attended courses at Harvard Law School. Rhodes Scholar nominee, 1948.
PERSONAL Born in 1926. Widower, father and grandfather. Recently remarried.
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Mary Alice "Mal" Herbert
Vice Presidential Candidates
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Mary Alice "Mal" Herbert is 68, a retired school teacher, a widow, a mother, and the daughter of a Methodist minister. Originally a Republican, she became a socialist by the 1960s in response to "the patriarchal capitalist hierarchy of my own country." Herbert has also been a frequent candidate for state office in the 1980s and 1990s under the banner of the Liberty Union Party, a democratic socialist and feminist party active only in Vermont. In 1996, for example, she was the LU nominee for Governor against Howard Dean. Her campaign strategy in those years was simply "to make pithy statements" in speeches and Letters to the Editor. She originally entered the 2004 race as the designated runningmate of one of Brown's more leftist rivals for the Presidential nomination (Eric Chester). Chester lost the nomination to Brown, but Herbert won the VP nomination at the SPUSA national convention. She wants to use the VP nomination as a platform for advancing her views on feminist socialism.
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