John Bayard Anderson (born February 15, 1922) was a liberal Republican U.S. Representative from Illinois and presidential candidate in the 1980 election. February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The House of Representatives is the larger of two houses that make up the U.S. Congress, the other being the United States Senate. ... Official language(s) English Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ...

Anderson was born to a Swedish American family in Rockford, Illinois, where he grew up. He then attended University of Illinois, but his education was interrupted by World War II, when he enlisted in the Army in 1943. He served as a staff sergeant in the U.S. Field Artillery until the end of the war. After the war, returned to complete his degree, receiving a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1946. He was admitted to the Illinois bar the same year, and commenced the practice of law in Rockford. Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. Traditionally referred to as The Forest City, Rockford is classified as a mid-sized city as it has 150,115 residents, while the metro area has 320,204 residents (2000 Census). ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ... Combatants Allies: Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France/Free France, United States, China, Canada, India, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Juris Doctor (J.D.) is a first degree in law offered by universities in a number of countries, most notably the United States. ... The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the U of I (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the flagship campus in the University of Illinois system. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A bar association is a body of lawyers who, in some jurisdictions, are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession. ...

Soon after, he moved east to attend Harvard Law School, obtaining an LL.M. degree in 1949. While at Harvard, he served on the faculty of Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. Between 1952 and 1955, he served as the Economic Reporting Officer in the Eastern Affairs Division, as an adviser on the staff of the United States High Commissioner for Germany. In 1956, he was elected State's Attorney in Winnebago County, Illinois. The crest of Harvard Law School is drawn from the Royall coat of arms Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article is about the American institution. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City on a Hill, Beantown, The Hub (of the Solar System), Athens of America Location Location in Massachusetts Government Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Geographical characteristics Area     City 232. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Winnebago County is a county located in the state of Illinois. ...

Anderson remained State's Attorney until 1960, when he ran for the House of Representatives in the 16th District of Illinois. He won the election, serving in U.S. Congress from 1961 to 1981. In 1969, he became Chairman of the House Republican Conference. He was one of the most articulate of the liberal Rockefeller Republicans. Image File history File links 1980Anderson. ... Image File history File links 1980Anderson. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Congress in Joint Session. ... The House Republican Conference, sometimes known as the House Republican Leadership Conference, is an organization for Republicans in the United States House of Representatives. ... In the United States, the term Rockefeller Republican refers to those members of the Republican party who hold moderate views similar to those of the late Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and vice president of the United States under President Gerald Ford in the mid...

In the 1980 presidential election, Anderson entered the Republican primary for the U.S. presidential election, in a crowded field that included Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. That spring, he dropped out of the primary race to run as an independent candidate for the fall general election. His campaign manager was New York media strategist David Garth. Anderson started out very well in the polls--over 25%. But as a top advisor reported, "Instead of rising to something on the order of 30 percent, he fell, steadily, about 1 percentage point every week and a half, down to 22 percent, then 20 percent, then 18 percent, and progressively worse." [Bisnow, p 214] Most of Anderson's original support came from Rockefeller Republicans who were more liberal than Reagan, but it bled away. Many prominent intellectuals, including the author and activist Gore Vidal, also endorsed the Anderson campaign. He also had the support of many independents. The hope that Anderson would score when the Democrats split faded when Ted Kennedy endorsed Jimmy Carter and the Democrats held together. The choice of little-known Democrat Patrick Joseph Lucey, a former governor of Wisconsin, as his running mate signaled that Anderson was unable to win over any prominent Democrat. His poll numbers kept falling, despite a spirited debate with Reagan. He stayed in the race because he would receive federal election subsidies only if he received 5% of the vote, and millions of unpaid debts had been accumulated. [Bisnow p 308] In the end he barely made the 5% and received 7% of the vote in the election, with a total of about 6 million votes. He did not carry a single precinct in the country. See Reagan Coalition for vote details. His inability to achieve the spoiler effect in that election would later lead him to become an advocate for Instant Runoff Voting. Four years later in 1984 he supported the Democratic candidate Walter Mondale. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... The examples and perspective in this article do not represent a worldwide view. ... Ronald Wilson Reagan, Hon GCB, (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975). ... George Herbert Walker Bush, Hon GCB (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States of America (1989–1993). ... In the United States, the term Rockefeller Republican refers to those members of the Republican party who hold moderate views similar to those of the late Nelson Rockefeller, governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and vice president of the United States under President Gerald Ford in the mid... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a prolific and versatile American writer of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays and has been a public and often controversial figure on both the American literary and... Edward Moore Ted Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, having served since 1962. ... James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ... Patrick Joseph Lucey (born March 21, 1918) was a member of the Democratic Party who served as governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin from 1971 to 1977. ... Category: ... The spoiler effect is a term to describe the effect a candidate can have on a close election, in which their candidacy results in the election being won by a candidate dissimilar to them, rather than a candidate similar to them. ... When the single transferable vote voting system is applied to a single-winner election it is sometimes called instant-runoff voting (IRV), as it is much like holding a series of runoff elections in which the lowest polling candidate is eliminated in each round until someone receives majority vote. ... Walter Frederick Fritz Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ...

By the end Anderson's support was on college campuses, and he capitalized on that by becoming a visiting professor at series of universities: Stanford University, University of Illinois College of Law, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Oregon State University, University of Massachusetts, and Nova Southeastern University (his most recent post). He served as Chair of the Center for Voting and Democracy from 1996 to the present (as of 2006), as President of the World Federalist Association, on the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and is of counsel to the Law Offices of Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC. Stanford redirects here. ... Brandeis University is a private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. ... Bryn Mawr is also the name of an official neighborhood of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Oregon State University (OSU) is a research and degree-granting four-year public university located in Corvallis, Oregon. ... This page is about the university system across Massachusetts. ... Nova Southeastern University is a not-for-profit, independent university, founded in 1964 in Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida, USA. The university serves large numbers of adult students and a growing population of traditional undergraduates. ... ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is a non-profit grassroots membership organization dedicated to promoting a future in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation can solve alone. ... Electronic Privacy Information Center or EPIC is a public interest research group in Washington D.C.. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. ...

In the 2000 U.S. presidential election, he endorsed Ralph Nader. Map The U.S. presidential election of 2000 took place on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7. ... Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American attorney and political activist. ...

Further reading

• Mark Bisnow; Diary of a Dark Horse: The 1980 Anderson Presidential Campaign. Southern Illinois University Press. 1983.