James A. "Jim" Lewis was the Libertarian Party's Vice-Presidential

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 candidate in the 1984 U.S. presidential election, sharing the party ticket with David Bergland

David Bergland

David Peter Bergland received the United States Libertarian Party's nomination for the 1984 presidential election. Bergland and his running mate Jim Lewis received 228,111 . He received the party's vice-presidential nomination in the 1976 presidential election, sharing the ticket with Roger...

. The ticket received 228,111 votes (0.3%) to finish third overall.

Lewis, from his home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut

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, made campaign stops across the United States

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 during his campaign, and co-authored a book with Jim Peron, entitled Liberty Reclaimed.

In 1987 Lewis ran for the 1988 Libertarian Party presidential nomination finishing third with 12.83% of the vote at the 1987 Libertarian National Convention

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. Lewis finished behind nominee Ron Paul

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 (51.31%) and Russell Means

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 (31.41%).

Lewis had earlier (1982) run for U.S. Senate in Connecticut as a Libertarian

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 finishing fourth (receiving 8,163 Votes (0.75% and had served for a time as a representative to the Libertarian National Committee

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Lewis graduated from Babson College

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in 1958, and spent many years as a salesman for the General Book Binding Company of Cleveland, Ohio.