served four nonconsecutive terms: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. After four runs for U.S. president (three as a Democrat and one on the American Independent Party ticket ), he earned the title, "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter [1] and Stephan Lesher. [2] A