John Pierce St. John (Feb. 25, 1833 - Aug. 31, 1916) was a 19th century American politician and Presidental candidate. Born in Brookville, Indiana, St John served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. |
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From 1873 he sat in the Kansas State Senate, and was the Republican Governor of Kansas from 1879 to 1883. Active in the temperance movement, he successfully promoted a prohibition amendment to that state's constitution. St. John also helped create the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association during the Great Exodus of African-Americans to Kansas in 1879.
He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1884 election. He received 147,482 votes (about 1.5%) on a ticket with William Daniel. The election was won by Stephen Grover Cleveland of the Democratic Party. St. John was also surpassed by two other unsuccessful candidates:
James Gillespie Blaine of the Republican Party.
Benjamin Franklin Butler of the United States Greenback Party.
St John died in 1916 in Olathe, Kansas.
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