Populist

Highest Office Won: None
Founded: 1984

The Populist Party is best known as the party that ran former KKK leader David Duke for President. Duke had planned to run as a Democrat, but changed his affiliation to Populist early in the primaries. In 1992, the Populist Party nominee for the Presidency was Bo Gritz a Special Forces Colonel, who became nationally known "in the early 1980s after leading several commando-style missions into Southeast Asia to rescue American POWs he believed to have been imprisoned since the Vietnam War."
The party went into decline sometime after the 1992 election, and had ceased to exist by the 1996 election.

NOTE: The Populist Party is not the same as California's People's Party (known nationally as the Populist Party).