Melvin T. Mason is an American

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 politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party

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 candidate for United States President

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 in the 1984 United States presidential election

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. Along with Vice Presidential

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 candidates Andrea Gonzales and Matilde Zimmermann

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 (different ones in different states) he received 24,672 votes.

Mason had run twice for Governor

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 of California

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, in 1978 and in 1982.

He wrote the autobiography Mel Mason: The Making of a Revolution (1982) ISBN 0-87348-448-7.

At present, he is the President of the Monterey Peninsula

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, California Branch of the NAACP.