They Longed for the Presidency: John St. John

Published on January 28, 2005 By Gideon MacLeish In History

John St. John (1833-1916) was elected to the Kansas senate in 1873. In 1879, he was elected the Governor of Kansas as a Republican. When the Republican Party refused to adopt a platform of prohibition, St. John joined the Prohibition Party, and ran as its presidential candidate in 1884, garnering about 1.5% of the vote. combined with the Greenback Party's similar percentage, St. John and Benjamin Butler combined to spoil the 1884 contest, which was decided by fewer than 26,000 popular votes.

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