Roger Lea MacBride
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Roger Lea MacBride August 6, 1929 New Rochelle, New York, U.S. |
| Died | March 5, 1995 (aged 65) Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party |
Republican (Before 1972, 1980s–1995) Libertarian (1972–1980s) |
| Alma mater |
Princeton University Harvard University |
Roger Lea MacBride (August 6, 1929 – March 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, political figure, writer, and television producer. He was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1976 election. MacBride became the first presidential elector in U.S. history to cast a vote for a woman when, in the presidential election of 1972, he voted for the Libertarian Party candidates John Hospers for president and Theodora "Tonie" Nathan for vice president.
He was co-creator and co-producer of the television series Little House on the Prairie.
MacBride was born in 1929 in New Rochelle, New York, the son of Elise Fairfax (Lea) and William Burt MacBride, an editor. He called himself "the adopted grandson" of a family friend, writer, and political theorist Rose Wilder Lane, whom he met for the first time when he was 14 years of age. Lane – the daughter of writer Laura Ingalls Wilder, who was noted for writing the Little House series of books – designated MacBride as a "political disciple," as well as her executor and sole heir.
MacBride was a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
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