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<ref>{{Cite news |date=1967-10-08 |title=Indian princess eyes nomination for presidency |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/st-louis-post-dispatch-indian-princess/144700356/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |pages=146}}</ref>

Faye Carpenter Swain<ref name = "Loeb">{{Cite book |last=Cash |first=Kevin |url=http://archive.org/details/whohelliswilliam00cash |title=Who the hell is William Loeb? |date=1975 |publisher=Manchester, N.H. ; Amoskeag Press |page = 256|others=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Fifi Taft Rockefeller<ref name ="Freeman">{{Cite book |last=Freeman |first=Jo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WrXz8X8lbdwC&dq=faye+carpenter+swain&pg=PA258 |title=We Will Be Heard: Women's Struggles for Political Power in the United States |date=2023-06-14 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4616-4688-4 |language=en|page=93}}</ref>

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'''Fay Carpenter Swain''' was a candidate for president or vice president in multiple primaries in the period spanning 1964 to 1976.

== Early life ==

Swain was born Fay Darlene Turner<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Pulfer |first=Laura |date=1997-08-05 |title=Fifi, beloved street person, dead at 81 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-enquirer-fifi-beloved-st/144703110/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=The Cincinnati Enquirer |pages=11}}</ref> around 1916 in [[Clark County, Illinois]].<ref name=":0" /> She self-identified as being of [[Cherokee descent]].{{Cn|date=April 2024}}

In 1963 she lived in [[Greenhills, Ohio]] when she was investigating how to get her name on the ballot for the New Hampshire vice presidential ticket.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1tUiAAAAIBAJ&dq=Fay+Carpenter+Swain&pg=PA15&article_id=3043,1932696 |title=The Pittsburgh Press |publisher=The Pittsburgh Press |language=en}}</ref>

Swain was a candidate in the [[1964 Democratic Party presidential primaries]] where she received 7,140 votes in Indiana. She was against [[capital punishment]] and the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]],<ref>{{cite book |title=The Telegraph |publisher=The Telegraph |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xrkrAAAAIBAJ&dq=Fay+Carpenter+Swain&pg=PA13&article_id=3231,2894455 |language=en}}</ref> and was quoted as indicating she was for equal rights for men.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-02-04 |title=Candidate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/dayton-daily-news/144787538/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=Dayton Daily News |pages=21}}</ref> She was also noted as one who threw jelly beans at reporters during the primary season,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carmony |first=Donald F. (Donald Francis) |url=http://archive.org/details/indianaselfappra00carm |title=Indiana: a self-appraisal |date=1966 |publisher=Bloomington, Indiana University Press |others=Internet Archive |pages=54}}</ref> and for gathering signatures from people who signed documents as a means to "get rid of [her]".<ref>{{Cite news |date=1964-05-04 |title=In Indiana, everybody runs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/dayton-daily-news-in-indiana-everybody/144787672/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=Dayton Daily News |pages=20}}</ref>

In 1967 she entered the New Hampshire primary as a peace candidate in the Democratic party.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1967-10-06 |title=Indian princess plans to enter primary in NH |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evening-express-indian-princess-plans-to/144700745/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=Evening Express |pages=3}}</ref> Her first appearance at the New Hampshire primary was with the name Princess St. Swanee Running Water,<ref name="Loeb" />{{Rp|page=254}} but when she returned to enter the primary she was told she would have to use her name Faye Carpenter Swain.<ref name="Loeb" />{{Rp|page=256}} Her participation in the New Hampshire primary was later discussed as a publicity stunt.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Langley |first=Guy |url=http://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1968-03-09_101_10 |work=Editor and Publisher |title=Newsmen saw Nixon out front 'way back|date=1968-03-09 |publisher=Duncan McIntosh |others=Internet Archive |volume=101 |language=English |issue=10}}</ref>

She received 2305 votes in the 1976 Kentucky Democratic primary,<ref name = "Freeman" /> where she was noted for her campaign attire which included a gold lame skirt.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1976-05-30 |title=Better late than...well, report still has a few bugs |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-indianapolis-star-better-late-than/144787860/ |access-date=2024-04-05 |work=The Indianapolis Star |pages=26}}</ref> In 1983 she campaigned for governor of Kentucky.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lawrence |first=Keith |date=1983-04-21 |title=Fifi Rockefeller campaigns - by bus |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/messenger-inquirer-fifi-rockefeller-camp/144704119/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=Messenger-Inquirer |pages=17}}</ref>

== Personal life ==

Her husband Willy Lee Swain was a [[World War I]] veteran.<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title="Colorful Character" Asks Vice Presidency |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/510367257/?terms=Fay%20Carpenter%20Swain&match=1 |publisher=Boswell News |date=Jan 23, 1964 |pages=2 |language=en}}</ref>

In her late 70s she lived in Cinncinati and was known as one who was "larger than life".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wecker |first=David |date=1993-11-04 |title=Fifi the street legend knows she's a winner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-fifi-the-street-lege/144703583/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=The Cincinnati Post |pages=27}}</ref> She died in 1997,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=1997-08-04 |title=Fifi Taft Rockefeller, proud of role as 'town character' |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-fifi-taft-rockefelle/144703410/ |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-fifi-taft-rockefelle/144703410/ 7],[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post/144703821/ 33]|access-date=2024-04-03 |work=The Cincinnati Post }}</ref> whereupon the [[The Cincinnati Post]] published a story about some of more unusual activities over the years.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wecker |first=David |date=1997-08-12 |title=Fifi outsmarted Harvard Law grad |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-fifi-outsmarted-harv/144702751/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |work=The Cincinnati Post |pages=[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post-fifi-outsmarted-harv/144702751/],[https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-cincinnati-post/144702901/]}}</ref>

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[[Category:20th-century American women politicians]]

[[Category:Candidates in the 1964 United States presidential election]]

[[Category:American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent]]

[[Category:People from Hamilton County, Ohio]]

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