Melvin T. Mason

Melvin T. Mason is an American politician who ran as Socialist Workers Party candidate for United States President in the 1984 United States presidential election. Along with Vice Presidential candidates Andrea Gonzales and Matilde Zimmermann (different ones in different states) he received 24,672 votes.

Mason had run twice for Governor of California, in 1978 and in 1982.

He wrote the autobiography Mel Mason: The Making of a Revolution (1982) ISBN 0-87348-448-7.

At present, he is the President of the Monterey Peninsula, California Branch of the NAACP.

References

"Demonstrate for Mumia" International Action Center

Party political offices
Preceded by Andrew Pulley	Socialist Workers Party Presidential candidate 1984 (lost)	Succeeded by James "Mac" Warren

United States presidential election, 1984

Republican Party

Nominee: Ronald Reagan

VP nominee: George H. W. Bush

Candidates: Ben Fernandez; Harold Stassen

Democratic Party

Nominee: Walter Mondale

VP nominee: Geraldine Ferraro

Candidates: Reubin Askew; Alan Cranston; John Glenn; Gary Hart; Ernest Hollings; Jesse Jackson; George McGovern

Third party and independent candidates

Citizens Party	Nominee Sonia Johnson VP nominee Richard Walton

Communist Party	Nominee Gus Hall VP nominee Angela Davis

Libertarian Party	Nominee David Bergland VP nominee Jim Lewis Candidates Gene Burns Earl Ravenal Mary Ruwart

Prohibition Party	Nominee Earl Dodge

Socialist Equality Party	Nominee Edward Winn VP nominee Helen Halyard

Socialist Party	Nominee Sonia Johnson VP nominee Richard Walton

Socialist Workers Party	Nominee Melvin T. Mason VP nominee Matilde Zimmermann

Workers World Party	Nominee Larry Holmes Alternate nominee Gavrielle Holmes VP nominee Gloria La Riva

Independents and other candidates	Charles Doty Larry Flynt Lyndon LaRouche Running mate Billy Davis

Other 1984 elections: House; Senate; Gubernatorial

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