Perennial Presidential Candidate Lyndon LaRouche Dead at 96
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Mr. LaRouche espoused a range of conspiracy theories and ran in every presidential election from 1976 to 2004
Lyndon LaRouche Jr., the political extremist who ran for president in every election from 1976 to 2004, including a campaign waged from federal prison, has died. He was 96.
Mr. LaRouche’s political-action committee confirmed Wednesday on its website that Mr. LaRouche died a day earlier.
The cultlike figure, who espoused a range of conspiracy theories and advocated for an overhaul of the world’s economic and financial systems, ran first as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and later, after an apparent shift to the right, as a Democratic or independent candidate.
In 1986, Mr. LaRouche described himself as being in the tradition of the American Whig party, a forerunner of the Republican Party in the first half of the 19th century.
Mr. LaRouche grew up in Lynn, Mass., and in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a member of the Socialist Workers Party, taking the name “Lyn Marcus.”
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