Christian Party (United States, 1930s)
The Christian Party was a fascist American political party founded by William Dudley Pelley in 1935.[1] He chose 16 August 1935 as the founding date, because it was a "pyramid date".
History
The party might be considered to be the political wing of Pelley's paramilitary organization, the Silver Legion. It ran with Pelley as its candidate for the 1936 presidential campaign (Silver Legion member Willard Kemp was the Vice Presidential candidate) but was quickly dissolved after the United States entered World War II. Pelley gained just 1,600 votes in the election.
Pelley's party is unrelated to the modern day Christian Party that was founded in 2009 by a group of self-described "Christian Constitutionalist patriots" in Mobile, Alabama.
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