Diane Beall Templin
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Diane Beall Templin was a third-party
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 candidate for President of the United States
President of the United States
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 in the 1996 election
United States presidential election, 1996
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, the 2004 election
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, and the 2008 election
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.

In 1996 her running mate was Gary Van Horn; that year she was on the ballot in Utah
Utah
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 representing the Independent American Party (IAP)
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, where she received 1,290 votes; in Colorado
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 she represented the American Party and received 557 votes. The 2000 ticket of the American Party, Don Rogers and Albert B. "Al" Moore, promised that if elected they would nominate Templin to head the Environmental Protection Agency
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 and to the United States Supreme Court. When she ran again in 2004, her Vice Presidential nominee was Al Moore; they were not on the ballot in any state. They replaced the brief American Party ticket of Robert Boyd
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 and Walter Thompson
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, who chose to withdraw.

Templin was one of 135 candidates who ran for governor in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election, receiving 1,067 votes. The San Diego described her as a "swing dance enthusiast." During the recall campaign, Templin appeared on a statewide PBS news program as she was dipped by a dance partner while declaring that California was "upside down." She has also run for California Attorney General
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 in 1998 and 2002 as a candidate of the American Independent Party
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 of California
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 and has been a perennial candidate
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 for Congress in California
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's 50th and 51st district in 2004. Her husband Robert James Templin, 81, of Escondido died Tuesday, December 26, 2006.

She sought the 2008 American Independent Party
American Independent Party
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 nomination for president of the United States
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 against Don J. Grundmann and Mad Max Riekse and became the American Party candidate with Linda Patterson as her running mate.

Elections

  • 1998 California Attorney General 193,980 (2.4%) - 3rd
  • 2000 U.S. Senate 134,598 (1.2%) - 5th
  • 2002 California Attorney General 185,754 (2.6%) - 4th
  • 2003 Governor of California (recall election) 1,067 (0.0%) - 69th
  • 2004 U.S. Congress California District 50 4,723 (1.6%) - 4th

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