Henning A. Blomen

Blomen in 1968

Henning A. Blomen (September 28, 1910 – July 14, 1993) was an American politician who was candidate for United States President of the Socialist Labor Party of America in 1968 and for Vice President in 1964. Blomen was also an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Massachusetts 14 times. According to his obituary in the Boston Globe, Henning advocated a bloodless revolution, abolishment of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist industrial republic.

Blomen was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in September 1910. He worked as a machine assembler shipper for a coffee importer and later at a chemical plant in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was employed for more than 25 years. Henning died at a nursing home in North Reading, Massachusetts in July 1993 at the age of 82.

References[]

• "Henning A. Blomen, 83, was Socialist party organizer". Boston Globe. 1993-07-20.

External links[]

• 1953 video recording of Blomen on YouTube

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