Question: Which former Republican won the presidential nomination at the 2012 United States Libertarian National Convention? 

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LPRadicals is a caucus formed in 2006 within the United States Libertarian Party by Susan Hogarth and other party members who opposed removal of much of the material in the party platform during the 2006 national party convention.  The caucus lists four points as "key strategic principles in furthering the work of the Libertarian Party toward, as our platform describes it, 'a world set free in our lifetime'."  These are: Rights Are Utilitarian, Radical Abolitionism, Principled Populism, and No Particular Order (for removal of government policies).  The caucus was active at the 2008 and 2010 Libertarian National Conventions.  The radical caucus was revived and was extraordinarily active during the 2016 Libertarian National Convention. David Peter Bergland (born June 4, 1935) is an American politician who was the United States Libertarian Party's nominee at the 1983 Libertarian National Convention for President of the United States in the 1984 presidential election. The 2012 United States Libertarian National Convention, in which delegates of the Libertarian Party (LP) chose the party's nominees for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2012 general election, was held May 2–6, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino.  Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson won the presidential nomination on the first ballot.  Retired California state court judge Jim Gray won the vice-presidential nomination, also on the first ballot.  The convention also chose to replace most of the Libertarian National Committee party officers and members-at-large. Gary Johnson was the governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 and ran for president in 2012 and 2016.  In December 2011 he announced he would pursue the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party for the 2012 general election.  The Libertarian National Convention in May, 2012 chose Johnson as the party's candidate.  In November 2014, Johnson announced he would pursue the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party for the 2016 general election.  Johnson has taken positions on many political issues as revealed through his public comments, his gubernatorial record, his Our America Initiative and his campaigns to win the Republican and Libertarian nominations. Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and politician.  He was the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.  He was also the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. The 2016 Libertarian Party presidential primaries and caucuses allowed electors to indicate non-binding preferences for the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate.  These differed from the Republican or Democratic presidential primaries and caucuses in that they did not appoint delegates to represent a candidate at the party's convention to select the party's nominee for the United States presidential election.  The party's nominee for the 2016 presidential election was chosen directly by registered delegates at the 2016 Libertarian National Convention, which ran from May 26 to 30, 2016.  The delegates nominated former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld. The 2012 presidential campaign of Gary Johnson, the 29th Governor of New Mexico, was announced on April 21, 2011.  He declared his candidacy for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States.  On December 28, 2011, Johnson withdrew his candidacy for the Republican nomination, and declared his candidacy for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party.  The 2012 Libertarian National Convention was held during the first weekend of May 2012.  On May 5, 2012, after promoting his libertarian-oriented political positions to delegates, Johnson received the most votes at the convention and became the official 2012 Libertarian presidential nominee.  On November 6, 2012, Johnson received just under 1% of the popular vote in the general election, amounting to more than 1.2 million votes, more than double what the Barr/Root ticket received in 2008.  This was the most successful result for a third-party presidential candidacy since 2000, and the best in the Libertarian Party's history by vote number at the time.  (Johnson ran again in 2016 and received nearly four times his 2012 vote total.) Mark Hinkle (born January 28, 1951) is an American libertarian activist and businessperson.  He was the National Chairman of the United States Libertarian Party until 2012.  He was elected by the delegates of the 2010 Libertarian National Convention in St. Louis, Missouri on May 30, 2010. The Libertarian National Committee (LNC) controls and manages the affairs, properties, and funds of the United States Libertarian Party.  It is composed of the party officers, five at-large representatives elected every two years at the national convention, and a theoretical maximum of 10 regional representatives.  The current chair, elected in June 2014, is Nicholas Sarwark.  The Executive Director is Wes Benedict. The Libertarian National Convention is held every two years by the Libertarian Party (United States) to choose members of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), and to conduct other party business.  In presidential election years, the convention delegates enact a platform and nominate the Libertarian presidential and vice-presidential candidates who then face the nominees of other parties in the November general election.

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The 2012 United States Libertarian National Convention, in which delegates of the Libertarian Party (LP) chose the party's nominees for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2012 general election, was held May 2–6, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino.  Former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson won the presidential nomination on the first ballot. Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and politician.  He was the 29th Governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.