12 Facts About Vincent Hallinan

Vincent Hallinan was an American lawyer and candidate for President of the United States in the 1952 election on the Progressive Party ticket.

The son of Elizabeth and Patrick Vincent Hallinan, he was raised in the city and in Petaluma, California.

Vincent Hallinan's father was said to be a member of the Irish National Invincibles, a revolutionary organization that, among other activities, was reputed to have assassinated the Chief Secretary for Ireland and his secretary in 1882.

Allegedly, the elder Vincent Hallinan had fled to the US after the murders.

Vincent Hallinan passed the bar exam on the first attempt and before he had graduated from law school.

Vincent Hallinan's early successes in court included personal injury actions against the powerful Market Street Railway Company which ran most of the trolley lines on the streets of San Francisco and was a subsidiary of northern California rail interests.

Vincent Hallinan received a contempt of court citation during the high-profile trial, and afterward spent six months in McNeil Island federal prison in Washington state.

Vincent Hallinan was disbarred for 3 years by the State Bar of California but appealed his disbarment after his release from jail.

Vincent Hallinan ran for President of the United States in the 1952 election, as the candidate for Henry Wallace's Progressive Party and was the third highest polling candidate in the election receiving more than 140,000 votes.

Vincent Hallinan's running mate, Charlotta A Bass, was the first African American woman chosen by a party as a vice-presidential candidate.

Vincent Hallinan visited U-2 pilot Gary Powers in Moscow soon after Powers' conviction in the Soviet Union for espionage.

Vincent Hallinan encouraged Powers to "study the Communist form of government, stating it was a "remarkable system.