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Andre Marrou
Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
from the 5th district
In office
January 14, 1985 – January 19, 1987
Seat B
Preceded byMilo Fritz
Succeeded byClaude Swackhammer
Personal details
Born
Andre Verne Marrou

(1938-12-04) December 4, 1938 (age 86)
Nixon, Texas, U.S.
Political partyLibertarian
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Andrew Verne Marrou (/məˈruː/; December 4, 1938) is an American politician who was the third Libertarian elected to a state legislature with his election to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1984. He later served as the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1988 election and its presidential nominee in the 1992 election.

Early life

Andrew Verne Marrou was born in Nixon, Texas, on December 4, 1938, to Andrew Noil Marrou. He graduated from San Marcos High School. He was one of the first people to receive a National Merit Scholarship and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1962.[1][2][3] He was given the nickname Andre by French roommates at MIT.[4] He lived in Boston until he moved to Alaska in 1973.[5]

Marrou divorced four times.[5][4] His brother is American television news personality and Judge Chris Marrou.[6]

Career

Alaska House of Representatives

Marrou joined the Libertarian Party in 1976.[3] He ran for Seat B from the 5th district in the Alaska House of Representatives in 1982, but placed second out of three candidates. He was elected to the state house in 1984, after defeating incumbent Republican Representative Milo Fritz by 56 votes. Marrou was the third Libertarian member of the state house after Dick Randolph and Dick Randolph.[7][8][5][3] Fritz asked Lieutenant Governor Steve McAlpine to decertify Marrou's victory claiming that Marrou knowingly lied on his conflict-of-interest form,[9] but McAlpine declined.[10]

Marrou lost to Claude E. "Swack" Swackhammer, a former Alaska State Trooper, in the 1986 election.[11] In 1986, he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he worked as a real estate broker.[3]

Marrou declined to join the Democratic and Republican caucuses.[12] During his tenure in the state legislature he served on the Community and Regional Affairs and Transportation committees.[13] He introduced more bills than any other member of the state house, but only one was passed.[14]

1988 vice-presidential campaign

In February 1988 Marrou announced at the Libertarian Party of California's state convention that he would seek the Libertarian Party's vice presidential nomination.[15] He was selected as the Libertarian vice-presidential nominee for the 1988 presidential election at the 1987 national convention without any opposition;[11] on the ballot in 46 states and the District of Columbia,[16] U.S. Congressman Ron Paul and Marrou placed third in the popular vote with 432,179 votes (0.5%),[17] behind George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis.[18] Paul and Marrou were kept off the ballot in Missouri (due to what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called a "technicality") and in North Carolina, and received votes there only when written in.[19][20]

1992 presidential campaign

In the 1992 election, Marrou was the Libertarian presidential nominee.[21][22] Marrou wanted a woman to serve as his vice-presidential running mate. He favored Mary Ruwart, but she lost the nomination to Nancy Lord.[4]

In the New Hampshire primary of that year, he polled the highest vote total, 11, in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, the first town in the state to report results.[6][23] He spent $30,000 in New Hampshire during the primary.[5]

In the general election, he and Lord were on the ballot in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and received 290,087 votes (0.28%).[24]

Marrou had most of his campaign staff resign during the summer of 1992, mainly because he was willing to accept a federal campaign subsidy in contradiction to Libertarian Party's non-coercion pledge. Several of his former campaign staffers sought to have the Libertarian Party strip him of the nomination because he had unpaid child support, had an arrest warrant in Massachusetts for an outstanding contempt of court charge, claimed to have been married twice when it was in fact four times, was being investigated for campaign improprieties from his time in Alaska, was reportedly running up unpaid credit card bills in a campaign PAC's name without their approval, and was habitually months late in making his house payments. The Libertarian Party national committee (LNC) decided to take no action for fear it would call attention to these issues.[25]

Marrou received one write-in vote in the New Hampshire Libertarian vice-presidential primary during the 1996 presidential election. Irwin Schiff won with a plurality of write-in votes.[26]

Political positions

Marrou supports abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Federal Reserve, and income tax.[4] He supports abortion and gay rights.[27] He supported repealing the Merchant Marine Act of 1920.[28]

Marrou supported limiting members of the Alaska state house and senate to four two-year terms and two four-year terms respectively.[12] He proposed legislation to abolish the Alaska Transportation Commission.[29] He opposed legislation requiring drivers to wear seatbelts.[30]

References

  1. ^ "Youth Given Scholarship". Austin American-Statesman. October 3, 1956. p. 11. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Ex-Alaska Legislator Marrou Wins Vote in New Hampshire". Daily Sitka Sentinel. February 18, 1992. p. 5. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ a b c d "Andre Marrou" (PDF). CLiPBoard. February 1991. p. 3. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c d "Going for the Bronze". Reason. November 1992. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d "Mr. Marrou Goes to Juneau". Reason. October 1986. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Marrou outpolls competitors in first town to report results". San Antonio Express-News. Associated Press. February 18, 1992. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  7. ^ "To Run". Daily Sitka Sentinel. March 24, 1982. p. 3. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Libertarian Winner In Legislative Race". Daily Sitka Sentinel. November 7, 1984. p. 5. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Losing Candidate Milo Seeks Winner's Ouster". Daily Sitka Sentinel. January 3, 1985. p. 3. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Defeated Legislator Gives Up". Daily Sitka Sentinel. January 16, 1985. p. 1A. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ a b Cross, Sue (February 23, 1988). "Marrou hits trail again". Anchorage Daily News. Associated Press. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  12. ^ a b "Libertarian Politics Returning to Juneau". Daily Sitka Sentinel. January 3, 1985. p. 5. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "Standing Committees For House Given Out". Daily Sitka Sentinel. January 14, 1985. p. 3. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "Libertarians Lose". Daily Sitka Sentinel. November 5, 1986. p. 8. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Andre Marrou: Libertarian Hopeful for Individuals". Victoria Advocate. June 13, 1987. p. 7. Archived from the original on December 23, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Rosenthal, Andrew (October 17, 1988). "Now for a Real Underdog: Ron Paul, Libertarian, for President". The New York Times. Archived from the original on March 29, 2008. Retrieved March 21, 2008.
  17. ^ Will, George F (February 18, 2007). "A Cheerful Anachronism". LibertyPost.org. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved March 17, 2008.
  18. ^ "1988 VOTE: The Final Word". The New York Times. December 12, 1988. Retrieved March 21, 2008.
  19. ^ Nugent, Franklin M. (November 7, 1988). "If You Don't Like Bush Or Dukakis". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. 3C. Archived from the original on October 10, 2012. Retrieved March 22, 2008.
  20. ^ Leip, Dave (November 7, 1988). "1988 Presidential General Election Results – North Carolina". Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. p. 1. Archived from the original on March 22, 2014. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
  21. ^ Walsh, Edward (September 1, 1991). "Libertarian Party Nominates Real Estate Broker for Run at a Million Votes". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 31, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  22. ^ O'Donnell, Maureen (October 7, 1992). "To Libertarian, Less Is More". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2014. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  23. ^ Publicover, Matthew S. (February 19, 1992). "At least Marrou can claim Dixville Notch". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on April 8, 2016. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  24. ^ "1992 Presidential General Election Results". US Election Atlas. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2012.
  25. ^ Radicals for Capitalism by Brian Doherty, pp. 515–16
  26. ^ Ladd 1997, p. 186.
  27. ^ Shapiro, Tamar (March 4, 1992). "Fulani, Marrou Attack Media". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on June 19, 2014. Retrieved February 6, 2024.
  28. ^ "Bills Introduced". Daily Sitka Sentinel. March 7, 1985. p. 8. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ "House OKs Insurance Regs on Air Carriers; Truckers Left Out". Daily Sitka Sentinel. March 25, 1985. p. 3. Archived from the original on February 6, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ "Mandatory Seat Belt Bill Slips By House". Daily Sitka Sentinel. March 13, 1986. p. 5. Archived from the original on February 7, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.

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Alaska House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the Alaska House of Representatives
from the 5th district
Seat B
1985–1987 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Libertarian nominee for Vice President of the United States
1988 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Libertarian nominee for President of the United States
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