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Johnston was born into a professional musical family. His grandmother, Mamie Jo Adams, was a songwriter, as was his mother Diane Johnston. [1] Diane wrote songs for Gene Autry in the 1950s and scored a hit in 1976 when Asleep at the Wheel covered her 1950 demo "Miles and Miles of Texas".
He was first elected as a Republican, and left the Republican Party to become an independent in early 2020 before switching to the Libertarian Party in April 2020. He did not seek re-election in 2020 [2] and switched back to the Republican Party in 2024 to run for the U.S. Senate election in Michigan. [3]
The Libertarian Party opposed the 2011 military intervention in Libya and LP Chair Mark Hinkle in a statement described the position of the Libertarian Party: "President Obama's decision to order military attacks on Libya is only surprising to those who actually think he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. He has now ordered bombing strikes in six ...
Ed Clark, 1980 Libertarian Party presidential nominee [56] Spike Cohen, entrepreneur, podcaster, and 2020 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee [57] Chris Cole, 2008 Libertarian nominee for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina [58] Michael Colley, U.S. Navy vice admiral and member of the board of directors of the Libertarian Party [59]
Left office to run for Governor of New Hampshire in 2016 as a Libertarian. Was re-elected to the New Hampshire House in 2018 as a Republican. [41] June 28, 2019: Republican: Independent: Became an independent as he campaigned to be the nominee for President of the United States in 2020 of the Libertarian Party, the Veterans Party, and the ...
Libertarian Party of Rhode Island Bill Hunt [59] 0 / 38. 0 / 75. No Libertarian Party of South Carolina: Casey Crowe [60] 0 / 46. 0 / 124. Yes Libertarian Party of ...
1999 – Bob Smith, U.S. senator from New Hampshire (1990–2003), left the Republican Party on July 13, 1999, while running for the party's presidential nomination; became an independent and declared himself a candidate for the U.S. Taxpayers Party presidential nomination and an independent candidate. On November 1, 1999, he returned to the ...
The Pragmatist Caucus was a moderate faction long influential within the Libertarian Party. It was associated with the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns of Gary Johnson. It dissolved in 2022 due to a controversy caused by the Mises Caucus-controlled Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, which posted offensive messages on social media. [34] [35 ...