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New Hampshire Presidential Primary Trading Cards


Austin Burton Series I© 1998 N.H. State Library Austin Burton
alias Chief Burning Wood

Born: 1917
Filed from: New York for Vice President

NH Primaries
1968
1972
1976
Votes
(R) 10,987
(D) Write-in 11,264
(D) 11,095

Platform: "Vote for an honest buck"


He claimed to be a Delaware Indian and despite his advocacy of a return to the gold standard, he once mailed NH's Secretary of State a package of wampum - a four-foot length of snakeskin - as his filing fee for the primary. In 1968 he defeated four former Republican governors who were write-ins.


"Give the country back to the Indians."

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