The 21st century has introduced many new achievements for the United States. In 2008 the first African American was elected president. But he wasn’t the first African American to run for office. In 1904 an African American presidential candidate by the name of George Edwin Taylor ran for office as a third party candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party.
Taylor was born in 1857 to a free mother and a enslaved father in Little Rock, Arkansas. Already at a disadvantage for being black Edwin did not let that stop him for running in office for the 1904 presidential election. He didn’t campaign as a democratic or republican president as he found out none of their interests were in colored people. So he campaigned as part of the NNLP (National Negro Liberty Party) which is an all African American independent party. The NNLP nominated Taylor as their candidate to run for office.
With George Edwin Taylor keeping in mind that his chances of being elected was low, he kept pushing and giving his best efforts during his campaign. No matter what obstacles that he encountered he kept moving forward like nothing was holding him back. George Edwin Taylor ultimately lost the 1904 presidential election to Theodore Roosevelt.
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