Darcy G. Richardson

Darcy G. Richardson (December 6, 1955) is an American author, historian and politician.
In the 2012 presidential election, Richardson is the first candidate that has filed to challenge incumbent Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in New Hampshire.
Author and Activist
Richardson is the author of A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign, published in 2002. The book describes in detail the "Clean for Gene" phenomenon that led to President Lyndon B. Johnson's startling withdrawal from the race and Robert F. Kennedy's opportunistic last-minute candidacy, as well as the campaigns of Republican Richard M. Nixon and others. He has also authored four books of a planned seven volume series on the history of third party politics in the United States, with a heavy focus on progressive movements.
Additionally, Richardson is the creator of left-wing blog site BattlegroundBlog.com and Uncovered Politics blog site.
Between 1989 and 1992, Richardson served as the National Chairman of the New Democrats, a liberal reformist group that included Eugene McCarthy and Gary Hart.
Political Campaigns
Although a registered Democrat and elected Montgomery County precinct committeeman at the time, Richardson was nominated to run for the position of Pennsylvania Auditor General in 1980 on the Philadelphia-based Consumer Party's ballot line. In that race he finished third with 48,783 votes.
In 1988, the Consumer Party again nominated Richardson, this time to run for U.S. Senate. That same year, Richardson was the national campaign manager of former Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign. McCarthy was also running on the Consumer Party ticket. Richardson was later a senior advisor to McCarthy's final presidential campaign, in which he ran as a candidate in the Democratic primaries.
Books by Darcy G. Richardson
*A Nation Divided: The 1968 Presidential Campaign (2002)
*Others: Third-Party Politics From the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party (2004)
*Others: Third Parties During the Populist Period (2007)
*Others: Third Parties from Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party to the Decline of Socialism in America (2007)
*Others: "Fighting Bob" La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s (2008

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