Photo: Jo Jorgensen for President / CC BY 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Jo Jorgensen interests me precisely because she ran knowing she wouldn't win. A university lecturer and former business executive from Illinois, she carried the Libertarian banner as its 2020 presidential nominee and stood as a vice-presidential candidate back in 1996. To crisscross the country making a principled case from the political margins takes a conviction most career politicians never test. I don't have to share every position to respect someone who keeps a minority viewpoint visible and forces the bigger parties to account for it. Democracy gets its texture from people like her, and I find her steady, scholarly persistence genuinely admirable.
Overview
Jo Jorgensen (born May 1, 1957) is an American libertarian political activist and academic. Jorgensen was the Libertarian Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2020 election, in which she finished third in the popular vote with about 1.9 million votes, 1.2% of the national total. She was previously the party's nominee for vice president in the 1996 election, as Harry Browne's running mate.
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jo Jorgensen
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョー・ジョーゲンセン
- Reading
- じょー・じょーげんせん
- Born
- May 1, 1957 (age 69)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rooster
- Origin
- Libertyville, Illinois, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- politician / university teacher / business executive
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Grayslake Central High School
- University
- Baylor University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.