1968 United States presidential election

===Other parties and candidates===
Also on the ballot in two or more states were black activist [[Eldridge Cleaver]] (who was ineligible to take office, as he would have only been 33 years of age on January 20, 1969) for the [[Peace and Freedom Party (United States)|Peace and Freedom Party]]; [[Henning A. Blomen|Henning Blomen]] for the [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor Party]]; [[Fred Halstead]] for the [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]]; [[E. Harold Munn]] for the [[Prohibition Party]]; and [[Charlene Mitchell]] – the first African-American woman to run for president, and the first woman to receive valid votes in a general election – for the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]]. Comedians [[Dick Gregory]] and [[Pat Paulsen]] were notable [[write-in candidate]]s. A facetious presidential candidate for 1968 was a pig named [[Pigasus (politics)|Pigasus]], as a political statement by the [[Yippies]], to illustrate their premise that "one pig's as good as any other".<ref name="Perlstein">{{cite book|first=Rick| last=Perlstein|title=Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America|year=2008| title-link=Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America}}</ref>{{page needed|date=March 2013}}