Benjamin Bubar Jr.
Benjamin Calvin Bubar Jr., better known as Ben Bubar, was an ordained minister who was the youngest person ever to win election to the Maine House of Representatives at age 21 and served as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate in 1976 and 1980 and was the last elected official to do so until James Hedges in 2016.Life
Benjamin Calvin Bubar Jr. was born in June 17, 1917, in Blaine, Maine to Benjamin Calvin Bubar Sr., who later served as a state legislator ran for governor of Maine in 1936 and received 5,862 votes, and Mary Louise Heal. On February 14, 1946, he married Virginia Ireland and later had two children with her. In 1952, he moved to China, Maine and began working for the Maine Christian Civic League where he would serve as superintendent of from 1954 to 1984.
During the 1976 and 1980 presidential elections he was the National Statesman Party's presidential nominee with Chairman Earl Dodge as his vice presidential running mate and is the most recent nominee to receive over 10,000 votes. He criticized Dodge's leadership of the party and blamed him for its decreased support in presidential elections due to his mismanagement of funds and possible theft which would eventually result in him being ousted as chairman in 2003.
Bubar died on May 15, 1995, in Waterville, Maine from a heart attack after suffering from Parkinson's disease.
