Though the former U.S. president now faces four indictments while running for re-election, convicts or prisoners have won political office before – most infamously, Adolf Hitler
While Donald Trump holds the dubious distinction of being the first former U.S. president to run for office while
, he is not the first political candidate in U.S. history to have been indicted, convicted, or even incarcerated.in 1920 from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for violating the Sedition Act of 1918 by delivering a speech opposing the United States’ involvement in the First World War. Running as the Socialist Party’s candidate, he did not win the presidency but received nearly a million votes – the most a socialist has ever received in a U.S.
Some convicted candidates even managed to win. Marion S. Barry, Jr. won a fourth term as mayor of Washington in 1994, despiteWhile it is uncommon for candidates who have previously been indicted or jailed to secure prominent government positions in democratic countries, it is not unheard of. Sometimes, it accompanies the democratization process. Nelson Mandela won South Africa’s first free election in 1994 after being imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid regime.
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