Lithograph type; white slogan printed on red background :"ANDERSON"; rest of slogan black printed on red background "FOR PRESIDENT"; union "bug" on lower curl; no maker's name; hollow back, pin back. John Anderson from Illinois is a republican who ran for President in the 1980 elections as an independent with Patrick Lucey as his running mate. Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (Republican) and Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (Democrat) were also running in this election. Carter and Mondale and Anderson and Lucey both lost to Reagan and Bush. Anderson continued as an Illinois representative in congress until January of 1981.
