Richard Walton was the Vice Presidential nominee in 1984 of the short lived Citizens Party; Sonia Johnson was their Presidential nominee that year. He went on to become one of the early members of the Green Party of Rhode Island. In the 1996 Presidential election in Rhode Island he was temporarily a stand-in candidate for Ralph Nader's official running mate Winona LaDuke.[1] In the 2004 Presidential election, he endorsed Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb. He was long-time president of the Stone Soup Folk Arts Foundation of Rhode Island. He is a 1951 graduate of Brown University and in 1954 received a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has written several books on foreign policy, including The United States and the Far East (ISBN 0-8164-3110-8), Cold War and Counter-Revolution (ISBN 0-14-021627-8), The Power of Oil: Economic, Social, Political (ISBN 0-8164-3186-8) , and Congress and American Foreign Policy: A Background Book on the Presidential-Congressional Struggle (ISBN 0-8193-0612-6) As of March 2006, he is on the adjunct faculty of Rhode Island College, teaching writing and English.
| Preceded by La Donna Harris |
Citizens Party Vice Presidential candidate 1984 (lost) |
Succeeded by none |
