Vermin Supreme

Vermin Supreme in January 2017

Vermin Love Supreme (* 3. June 1961 in Rockport , Massachusetts ) is an American performance artist and activist for anarchism . He received special media attention through his candidacies in primary elections in the course of several presidential elections .

Life

Only vague information is known about Vermin Supreme's private life, as he refuses to provide information or provides contradicting information if possible. He grew up with two younger siblings near Boston . He went to Gloucester High School in Gloucester , Massachusetts. Then he moved to Baltimore to take up an art school , however, to visit his thereat study broke off and began to work in the underground club scene. During this time he began to develop the fictional character "Vermin Supreme". In 1986 he took part in the Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament .

In 1988 he was elected mayor in each of Baltimore, Detroit and Mercury , Nevada . In the 1990s he officially changed his name to "Vermin Love Supreme".

In 2004, Supreme ran as a candidate in the Washington, DC primaries in the course of the upcoming presidential election . In the 2008 presidential election , he took part in the Republican primary . Four years later, he finished third in New Hampshire's January 2012 Democratic primary with 833 (1.4%) votes, with the winner, then President Barack Obama , receiving 49,080 votes. In 2016 he ran again in the Democratic primary for president in New Hampshire.

Supreme was involved in the script of the 2009 documentary Vote Jesus: The Chronicles of Ken Stevenson and also played the lead role of Ken Stevenson in the documentary . In 2013 he presented the documentation Vote Jesus on the Liberty Forum of the Free State Project .

Supreme residence is Baltimore. He is married and has no children.

Web links

Commons : Vermin Supreme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website
• Vermin Supreme on Project Vote Smart
• Vermin Supreme in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Molly AK Connors: Primary 2012: He reigns supreme - Concord Monitor. (No longer available online.) January 15, 2012, archived from the original on October 23, 2012 ; Retrieved October 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Politics Is a Joke: An Interview with Vermin Supreme - Pork & Mead Magazine, Pork & Mead Magazine. (No longer available online.) February 21, 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 20, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Running Gag: A campaign veteran comes to the DC primary. - Washington City Paper. January 9, 2004, accessed November 20, 2012 . 
4. ^ David W. Moore, Andrew E. Smith: The first primary. New Hampshire's outsize role in presidential nominations. University of New Hampshire Press, Durham (New Hampshire) 2015 ISBN 978-1-61168-466-7 , ISBN 978-1-61168-798-9 , p. 255.
5. ^ A Supreme third-place finish - GloucesterTimes.com. January 12, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2012 . 
6. ^ Publication of the results by the Secretary of State of New Hampshire. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 29, 2012 ; Retrieved November 12, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Nick Reid: Ben Carson and Vermin Supreme file for president on deadline day , The Concord Monitor. November 21, 2015. Archived from the original on November 25, 2015 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 3, 2016.  
8. ↑ 2013 Liberty Forum: Vermin Supreme Presents Vote Jesus. Retrieved March 28, 2013 .