DuMont, Don, 1903-1976.

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DuMont was a Chicago mechanical engineer, Good Humor ice cream vendor, conservative Christian evangelist, and political gadfly. He opposed Richard Nixon, Communism, and many other issues in the self-published newsletter The Republimerican Retort. DuMont ran for president in 1968, 1972, and 1976, and for U. S. Senator from Illinois in 1974.

From the description of Papers, 1970-1976. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 310774232

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Birth 1903

Death 1976

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