16 Facts About Jack Fellure

Lowell Jackson Fellure was an American perennial political candidate and engineer.

Jack Fellure was the presidential nominee of the Prohibition Party for the 2012 presidential election.

Jack Fellure attended grade school in nearby Salt Rock, graduating from Barboursville High School in 1949.

Jack Fellure then enrolled at Marshall College, and upon graduation became a teacher.

Jack Fellure served as a minister to a wide range of churches.

Jack Fellure formally campaigned for President of the United States in every presidential election since 1988 as a member of the Republican Party.

Jack Fellure asserted on his campaign web site that his platform based on the King James Version of the Bible never changed.

In 1992, Jack Fellure filed to run in the New Hampshire, West Virginia and Kansas Republican primaries.

Jack Fellure again filed to run for president in 2000, but did not appear on any primary ballots.

Jack Fellure was the only candidate to appear alongside Bush in the North Dakota caucus, as he met the Federal Election Commission requirement of $5,000 in receipts.

Jack Fellure received 14 of the 2,020 votes cast, and lost all 26 delegates to Bush.

Jack Fellure was nominated for president on the second ballot, beating out former Thompson Township tax assessor and longtime Prohibition Party activist James Hedges of Pennsylvania.

In November 2012, Jack Fellure filed with the FEC to run for the Republican Party's 2016 presidential nomination.

In November 2016, Jack Fellure filed to run for the party's 2020 presidential nomination, but failed to make the ballot in any state.

Jack Fellure resided in Hurricane, West Virginia, with his wife Jean, and was the father of seven children.

On July 31,2022, Jack Fellure died at St Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, West Virginia, at the age of 90.