Ross Perot
Popular third party candidates can greatly influence elections. Ross Perot essentially won the 1992 election for Bill Clinton by taking votes from Bush.
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George Wallace
the third party candidate for the 1960 election was Governor George Corley Wallace of Alabama
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Teddy Roosevelt- Bull Moose Party, 1912
In 1959, no one ran for President as it was an off-year for presidential elections in the United States. The next presidential election was held in 1960, when Richard Nixon ran as the Republican candidate and John F. Kennedy ran as the Democratic candidate.
He actually was a pretty good candidate, but ran as a third party candidate. Third party people have never done well in elections and that did him in.
Winner-take-all aspect of electoral college ballot access campaign financing (rules/limits, not effects) Federal funding of presidential elections exclusion from presidential debates single-member plurality districts
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The most famous in recent history is probably H. Ross Perot from the the 1992 and 1996 U.S. presidential elections. (Pardon my U.S.-centric bias -- "two-party" versus "third-party" is largely a U.S. political issue, as far as I understand.)
Theodore Roosevelt was the Republican Party candidate in 1904 and the Progressive Party candidate in 1912. That was the last time the candidate of a party other than the Republican Party or the Democratic Party came in 2nd in a U. S. Presidential election.