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American Independent Party
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| Chairman | Mark Seidenberg |
| Secretary | Markham Robinson |
| Founded | July 8, 1967 |
| Headquarters | 476 Deodara St. Vacaville, California 95688 |
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Paleoconservatism Segregationism (formerly) |
| Political position | Right-wing to Far-right |
| National affiliation | America's Party |
| Colors | Purple |
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The American Independent Party (AIP) is a far-right political party in the United States that was established in 1967. The AIP is best known for its nomination of former Governor George Wallace of Alabama, who carried five states in the 1968 presidential election running on a segregationist platform against Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey. The party split in 1976 into the modern American Independent Party and the American Party. From 1992 until 2008, the party was the California affiliate of the national Constitution Party. Its exit from the Constitution Party led to a leadership dispute during the 2016 election.
In 2016, the AIP of California cross-nominated Donald Trump and Mike Pence to be the presidential and vice presidential nominees of the Republican Party, who went on to win the presidential election.
In 1968, the AIP was founded by Bill Shearer and his wife, Eileen Knowland Shearer. It nominated George C. Wallace as its presidential candidate and retired U.S. Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay as the vice-presidential candidate. Wallace ran on every state ballot in the 1968 presidential election, though he did not represent the American Independent Party in all fifty states: in Connecticut, for instance, he was listed on the ballot as the nominee of the "George Wallace Party." The Wallace/LeMay ticket received 13.5 percent of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes from the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama. No third-party candidate has won more than one electoral vote since the 1968 election.
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