Henning A. Blomen was a candidate for United States President

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 of the Socialist Labor Party of America

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 in 1968 and for Vice President of the United States

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 in 1964. Blomen was also an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts

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 14 times. According to his obituary in the Boston Globe, Henning advocated a bloodless revolution

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, abolishment of capitalism

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 and the establishment of a socialist industrial republic.

Blomen was born in New Bedford, MA in 1910. He worked as a machine assembler shipper for a coffee

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 importer and later at a chemical plant

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 in Cambridge, MA, where he was employed for more than 25 years. Henning died at a nursing home

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 in North Reading, MA in July, 1993.