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In 1984, the Populist Party name was revived by some extreme right activists including Willis Carto. The party's 1984 presidential nominee, Olympic medalist and ordained minister Bob Richards and running mate Maureen Salaman carried 66,324 votes. This party became the electoral vehicle for the right-wing Presidential campaigns of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in 1988, and of former Green Beret officer Bo Gritz in 1992, but was defunct by 1996. Willis Carto and party chair Don Wassall were said to be rivals competing for control of the party, a ...

The Populist Party grew out of the agrarian revolt that rose after the collapse of agriculture prices following the Panic of 1873. The Farmers' Alliance, formed in Lampasas, Texas in 1876, promoted collective economic action by farmers and achieved widespread popularity in the South and Great Plains. The Farmers' Alliance was ultimately unable to achieve its wider economic goal of collective economic action against brokers, railroads, and merchants, and many in the movement agitated for changes in national policy. By the late 1880s, the Alli ...

The nation remained on the gold standard until 1973, a fact that some (but by no means all) economic historians blame for the banking crisis during the Great Depression. In addition, the Populist Party's call for the direct election of Senators was realized in 1913 with the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment. The party's call for civil service reform would become part of the Progressive Party platform. Though the Populist Party's political power was short-lived, they did enact and promote important political policies lik ...

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