1. Jerome Michael Segal was born on November 25,1943 and is an American philosopher, political activist, and perennial candidate who resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.
16 Facts About Jerome Segal
1. 2.
Jerome Segal was the founder of the socialist, progressive, and somewhat libertarian Bread and Roses Party, which achieved ballot access in Maryland in January 2019, and which Segal ran from 2018 to 2021.
3.
Jerome Segal was a candidate in the Democratic Party primary in the 2018 United States Senate election in Maryland.
4.
Jerome Segal unsuccessfully ran in the 2020 United States presidential election and the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election.
5.
Jerome Segal's father, a socialist and member of the Jewish Labor Bund, was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States, where he found employment as a factory worker in the garment industry.
6.
Jerome Segal went on to receive a PhD from the University of Michigan, and taught in the philosophy department of the University of Pennsylvania.
7.
Jerome Segal later received an MPA from the Hubert Humphrey School of the University of Minnesota.
8.
Jerome Segal has been a leader of the American Jewish peace movement, starting in 1982 with Washington Area Jews for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, a group that opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
9.
In May 1989, Jerome Segal founded the Jewish Peace Lobby, which he envisioned as acting as a counterweight to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
10.
Jerome Segal ran for a seat in the US Senate against incumbent Senator Ben Cardin in the 2018 midterm elections.
11.
Jerome Segal said that he would not compete in swing states to avoid taking votes from a Democratic candidate running against Donald Trump.
12.
In December 2021, Jerome Segal disbanded the Bread and Roses party to seek the Democratic nomination for the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election.
13.
Jerome Segal's running mate was Justin Dispenza, a member of the town council of Galena, Maryland.
14.
In July 2022, Jerome Segal, announced he would challenge Joe Biden in the 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Jerome Segal dropped out in May 2023 to run for the vacant senate seat in Maryland.
15.
On May 1,2023, after US Senator Ben Cardin announced that he would not run for re-election in 2024, Jerome Segal ended his presidential campaign and instead started a campaign to succeed Cardin.
16.
Jerome Segal never filed to run for the US Senate with the Maryland State Board of Elections and did not appear on the ballot.