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Cleve Andrew Pulley (born May 5, 1951), better known as Andrew Pulley, is an American former politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party (SWP) nominee for 
Vice President of the United States
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in 1972
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and one of three nominees the party put forth for President of the United States
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in 1980.
Pulley was also the SWP's nominee for mayor of Chicago in 1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
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Pulley has also run for United States congress in the state of Michigan
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.
Biography
Pulley isAfrican American
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. He is from Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, Illinois
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Pulley was a civil rights movement
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supporter, steel mill worker and Vietnam War
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U.S. Army veteran who had opposed the war. Pulley's speech at the April 24, 1971 500,000 person protest march in Washington, D.C.
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against the Vietnam War
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appears in filmmaker David Loeb Weiss
David Loeb Weiss (c. 1911 - August 11, 2005) was a Polish-born American socialist activist, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Socialist Workers Party (United States), Socialist Workers Party in 1938.
Early life
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' 1972 documentary short film, ''To Make a Revolution''. Pulley was one of the Fort Jackson Eight
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. Pulley was a member of United Steelworkers Local 1066 at Gary Works
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.
In 1972, he was the Socialist Workers Party nominee for vice president in 1972, the running mate of Linda Jenness
Linda Jenness (born 1941) was a Socialist Workers Party candidate for president of the United States in the 1972 election. She received 83,380 votes (vs. 47,169,911 for Richard Nixon), making her the 4th most voted for candidate.In Arizona, Pima ...
. He and Jenness were nominated at the party's convention in Cleveland
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, which was held in August 1971. At the time of the election, he was twenty-one years old, making him ineligible to serve as vice president under the United States Constitution (also ineligible was Jenness, who was 31). The ticket of Jenness and him received 52,799 votes.
In 1979, Pulley ran for mayor of Chicago as the SWP nominee. He received 1.83% of the vote.
In some states, he was the SWP nominee for president in 1980. As the party's presidential nominee in the states of California
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, Colorado
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, Delaware
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, Georgia
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, Kentucky
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, Mississippi
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, New Jersey
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, New Mexico
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, and South Dakota
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, he received a total of 6,272 votes nationwide. Among those supporting his candidacy was future-Senator Bernie Sanders.
In 1984
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, Pulley was the SWP nominee for Michigan's 1st congressional district
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, and received 0.4% of the vote. A central part of his platform was opposition to the privatization of Wayne County General Hospital.
In 1990
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, Pulley ran without any party affiliation for Michigan's 13th congressional district
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The district includes portions of Detroit and some of its suburbs, and it was t ...
. He placed fifth out of five candidates, with 530 votes (0.8% of votes cast).
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