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| Affiliation | Constitution |
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| Name | Merritt B. Curtis |
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Washington, District of Columbia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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August 31, 1892
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| Died | May 16, 1966
(73 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
May 14, 2023 07:15pm |
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| Info | Merritt B. Curtis, Brigadier General, and lawyer who ran for President of the United States in 1960 under the Constitution Party.
Merritt Barton Curtis was born in 1892 at San Bernardino, California, son of Israel Hamilton Curtis and Eliza Allen Mee. Graduate of the University of California, and George Washington University. He married Francis Claire Bracewell on Apr 23, 1917 at Riverside, California. He was in the Marine Corps as 2nd Lieutenant in 1917 and advanced to Brigadier General in 1944. Member of the bar in California.
The Constitution Party was the result of the "...racist Right's ill-fated efforts at forming a third party..."[1] In 1960 the party put-up retired Marine Corps Brigadier General Merritt B. Curtis for president, and B. N. Miller for vice-president in the state of Washington.
He died in 1966 while a resident of Washington D.C., and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
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