Left to right: Jason T. Shipp, Jon Lammers, Andrew Arvesen. January 26, 1990
The Monarchy Party was a student political party that formed independently on two campuses across the United States. The first group was formed around 1970 at the University of Maryland, College Park by Greg Canter (also known as Sir Barchan of Dinglebury).[1][2][3] The second was formed, without knowledge of the first, on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida in 1989. The latter incarnation received media attention in The Washington Post and The Times of London, and was confronted by other student leaders who would later go on to conventional political careers, such as Trey Traviesa[4] who represented District 56 in the Florida House of Representatives.[5] At one point, Florida State University quarterback and eventual Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward ran successfully as their vice presidential candidate. There appears to have been a third student Monarchy Party formed in 1997 on the campus of San Francisco State University, but it is unclear how successful they were.[6][7] The parties received a political endorsement by Mojo Nixon, and would later be mentioned in a song called the "Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter" by former Dead Kennedys singer, Jello Biafra.
The basis of both of these political groups was to get a Monarch elected student body president. In a strange occurrence of synchronicity both groups used the campaign slogan "Vote once for the King, and you'll never have to vote again".
^POSTAL LIFE - Sept/Oct 98 - employees Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine
^Money, Jennifer (1988). "Top Two SGA Positions face Run-off next week. Republicans out; Monarchists win majority". Diamondback, The newspaper of the University of Maryland, College Park Thursday, October 13, 1988.
^Fletcher, Guy (1986). "King Tom addresses regents". Diamondback, The newspaper of the University of Maryland, college Park Monday, February 10, 1986 page 5.
^McCaffery, Robert (1990). "Student body president candidates square off". Florida Flambeu, the newspaper of Florida State University February 19, 1991.
^Trey Traviesa Archived 2006-08-14 at the Wayback Machine
^Introducing the Monarchy Party Archived 2006-09-01 at the Wayback Machine
^"The Monarchy Party". 2 October 1999. Archived from the original on 2 October 1999.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
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