Source: Reason
“Ed Clark, the Libertarian Party’s (L.P.) 1980 candidate for president, has died at age 95. Clark, a Harvard Law graduate who for much of his career practiced corporate law for Arco in Los Angeles, brought a calm normalcy to his libertarian messaging in his two prominent runs, famously trying to define this then-clandestine political philosophy as ‘low-tax liberalism’ to explain his combination of fiscal prudence, foreign policy restraint, and mostly letting people make their own personal choices. … Clark ended up, as the L.P.’s third presidential candidate, winning over 921,000 votes, 1.1 percent of the total, over five times as many votes as 1976’s candidate, Roger MacBride. It was a record the L.P. didn’t come near to beating until former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson ran in 2012.” (07/02/25)