Data 1872 - 1972 from Roger Storms (1972) "Partisan Prophets;" data 1972 - present from reports in "The National Statesman" It is important to keep in mind that vote totals are reported vote totals; many third-party votes, especially write-in votes, are disregarded by election officials.        Storms does not give the number of ballot-qualified states for some years.        Church affiliation is given when known.

1872	president:   James Black (PA), lawyer, civic activist
	vice-president:   John Russell (MI) minister, newspaperman (Methodist)
	5607 reported votes, 6 states
1876	president:   Green Clay Smith (KY) lawyer, military officer, Democratic congressman (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Gideon T. Stewart (OH) newspaperman, civic activist
	9737 reported votes, 10 states
1880	president:   Neal Dow (ME) businessman, military officer, civic activist (Quaker)
	vice-president:   Henry A. Thompson (OH) mathematician, pres. Otterbein Univ. (United Brethren)
	10,304 reported votes
1884	president:   John P. St. John (KS) adventurer, lawyer, military officer, Republican governor
	vice-president:   William Daniel (MD) legislator, civic activist
	153,128 reported votes
1888	president:   Clinton B. Fisk (NJ) banker, military officer, founder of Fisk Univ.
	vice-president:   John A. Brooks (MO) college president
	249,945 reported votes
1892	president:   John Bidwell (CA) rancher, military officer
	vice-president:   James B. Cranfill (TX) minister, newspaperman (Baptist)
	271,058 reported votes ** the record vote and percentage for the Prohibition Party (2.3%)
1896	president:   Joshua Levering (MD) businessman, WMCA official, trustees president Southern Baptist  Theological Seminary (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Hale Johnson (IL) lawyer
	130,617 reported votes (plus 13,969 for an alternative slate in some states)
1900	president:   John G. Wooley (IL) lawyer, orator
	vice-president:   Henry B. Metcalf (RI) banker, manufacturer, trustees pres. Tufts College                          (Universalist)
	209,469 reported votes
1904	president:   Silas C. Swallow (PA) minister (Methodist)
	vice-president:   George W. Carroll (TX) businessman, philanthropist
	258,205 reported votes
1908	president:   Eugene W. Chafin (WI) writer, local official, lawyer
	vice-president:   Aaron S. Watkins (OH) lawyer, president Asbury College (Methodist)
	253,231 reported votes, 28 states
1912	president:   Eugene W. Chafin (WI) writer, local official, lawyer
	vice-president:  Aaron S. Watkins (OH) lawyer, president Ashbury College (Methodist)
	207,828 reported votes
1916	president:   J. Frank Hanly (IN) newspaperman, teacher, lawyer, Republican governor
	vice-president:   Ira Landrith (TN) YMCA official, president Bellmont College (Presbyterian)
	221,329 reported votes
1920	president:   Aaron W. Watkins (OH) lawyer, president Asbury College (Methodist)
	vice-president:   D. Leigh Colvin (NY) historian, temperance society executive
	195, 923 reported votes
Increasingly repressive ballot access laws after 1920 made it difficult for third parties to campaign effectively. Storms says (p.39): "The two [dominant] parties wanted to make sure that there would never again be an outpouring of humanitarian reform comparable to that of the Progressive Era. From then on, they could be in the comfortable position of joining hands in a conspiracy of silence on the issues that really mattered. The technique was to create ballot laws which were so stringent that a dissenting group would have to expend all of its resources obtaining a place on the ballot and [would] have nothing left with which to campaign."
1924	president:   Herman P. Faris (MO) banker, businessman
	vice-president: Marie C. Brehm (CA) suffragette, first legally qualified female vice-presidential                        candidate
	56,289 reported votes, 16 states
1928	president:   William F. Varney (NY) business administrator
	vice-president:   James A. Edgerton (VA) newspaperman, writer, philosopher
	20,106 reported votes (plus 14,394 for an alternative slate in CA), 6 states
1932	president:   William D. Upshaw (GA) lecturer, Democratic congressman
	vice-president:   Frank S. Regan (IL) lecturer, state legislator
	81,869 reported votes, 22 states
1936	president:   D. Leigh Colvin (NY) historian, temperance society executive
	vice-president:   Claude A. Watson (CA) lawyer, business administrator (Free Methodist)
	37,847 reported votes, 25 states
1940	president:   Roger W. Babson (MA) economist, businessman (Congregational Christian)
	vice-president:   Edgar V. Moorman (IL) businessman
	59,492 reported votes, 28 states
Storms credits (p. 48) Babson and Moorman with changing the philosophical emphasis of the Prohibition Party from progressive to conservative, but the change was neither abrupt nor clear-cut. The party platform continued to include progressive planks, and still does, but the party leadership has chosen more and more to emphasize conservative planks.
1944	president:   Claude A. Watson (CA) lawyer, business administrator (Free Methodist)
	vice-president:   Andrew Johnson (KY) evangelist, lecturer (Methodist)
	74,758 reported votes, 27 states
1948	president:   Claude A. Watson (CA) lawyer, business administrator (Free Methodist)
	vice-president:   Dale H. Learn (PA) realtor, insurance salesman, civic activist
	103,343 reported votes, 19 states
1952	president:   Stuart Hamblen (CA) musician
	vice-president:   Enoch A. Holtwick (IL) historian, president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College
	78,181 reported votes, 20 states
1956	president:   Enoch A. Holtwick (IL) historian, president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College
	vice-president:   Edwin M. Cooper (CA) lawyer, YMCA official
	41,937 reported votes, 10 states
1960	president:   Rutherford L. Decker (MO) minister, co-founder of National Association of                   Evangelicals (Baptist)
	vice-president:   E. Harold Munn, Sr. (MI) television executive, educator
	46,239 reported votes, 11 states
1964	president:   E. Harold Munn, Sr. (MI) television executive, educator
	vice-president:   Mark R. Shaw (MA) minister, peace activist (Methodist)
	23,267 reported votes, 9 states
1968	president:   E. Harold Munn, Sr. (MI) television executive, educator
	vice-president:   Rolland E. Fisher (KS) evangelist (Free Methodist)
	15,123 reported votes, 9 states
1972	president:   E. Harold Munn, Sr. (MI) television executive, educator
	vice-president:    Marshall E. Uncapher (KS) educator, salesman
	13,444 reported votes, 4 states
1976	president:   Ben Bubar (ME) state legislator, temperance lobbyist (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	15,961 reported votes, 9 states
1980	president:   Ben Bubar (ME) state legislator, temperance lobbyist (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	7237 reported votes, 4 states
1984	president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Warren C. Martin (KS) member of Kansas state Board of Paroles and Pardons (Free Methodist)
	4204 reported votes, 5 states
1988	president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	vice-president:   George Ormsby (PA) businessman, president National Council of the International                          Organization of Good Templars
	8004 reported votes, 4 states
1992	president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	vice-president:   George Ormsby (PA) businessman, president National Council of the International                          Organization of Good Templars
	935 reported votes, 3 states
1996	president:   Earl F. Dodge (CO) Prohibition Party executive secretary/chairman (Baptist)
	vice-president:   Rachel Bubar Kelly (IL) educator, president of Women's Christian Temperance                          Union
	1294 reported votes, 4 states

"Our Party stands for a country so financially, politically, and morally clean as to make it an object lesson to be imitated....." - Silas Swallow, 1904 presidential candidate

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