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John Richard Rarick (born January 29, 1924 in Waterford, Indiana) is a lawyer, former Congressman, and former Presidential candidate.

After graduating from Louisiana State University, he served in the United States Army for three years during World War II. During that time he was captured and later escaped from a German Prisoner-of-war camp and was awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.

Rarick went on to graduate from Tulane University School of Law in 1949 and was admitted to practice law in Louisiana later that year.

He was elected a district judge in 1961 and resigned his judgeship in 1966 to declare his candidacy for Congress on a platform supporting racial segregation. Rarick was an elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from 1967 until his defeat in 1974.

Following that loss, Rarick defected to the American Independent Party and was an unsuccessful candidate for that party's presidential nomination in 1976. After losing the nomination fight, later that same year he sought to return to Congress as an Independent candidate, however his attempt was unsuccessful.

In 1980, Rarick was nominated as the American Independent Party's candidate for President of the United States. He finished in seventh place with 40,906 votes (or just 0.05%). His most respectable showings were in his home state of Louisiana where he polled 10,333 votes (0.67%) and in Alabama where he captured 15,010 votes (1.12%).

Rarick was among the charter members of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

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