Henning A. Blomen (September 28, 1910 – July 14, 1993) was an American politician who was candidate for

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of the Socialist Labor Party of America in

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and for

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. Blomen was also an unsuccessful candidate for

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14 times. According to his obituary in the ''

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'', Henning advocated a bloodless

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, abolishment of

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and the establishment of a

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industrial republic. Blomen was born in

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in September 1910. He was married twice. His first marriage was to Margaret (Kay) Elwell, ( www.margaretkaypoet.com ) originally from Eastport Maine, and with whom he had one daughter, Frances (Blomen) Tripp. His second marriage in 1969 was to Connie Zimmerman who went on to be the SLP Vice Presidential candidate in 1976. He worked as a machine assembler shipper for a coffee importer and later at a chemical plant in

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, Massachusetts, where he was employed for more than 25 years. Henning died at a nursing home in North Reading, Massachusetts in July 1993 at the age of 82, was cremated and his ashes were scattered behind a private residence on Water Row Rd. in Sudbury, Massachusetts.

References

* https://www.margaretkaypoet.com https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/422463#slide=gs-364439

External links

1953 video recording of Blomen
on

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1910 births 1993 deaths 1964 United States vice-presidential candidates 20th-century American politicians Candidates in the 1968 United States presidential election Politicians from New Bedford, Massachusetts Socialist Labor Party of America politicians from Massachusetts Socialist Labor Party of America presidential nominees Socialist Labor Party of America vice presidential nominees {{Massachusetts-politician-stub