Dunderhoff Lixmalt

Dunderhoff Lixmalt (December 16, 1918- April 29, 1968) was a candidate in the United States Presidential race in 1968 who, after a campaign of increasingly surreal and upsetting statements and behavior, spontaneously melted onstage at a rally.

Early Life
Dunderhoff Lixmalt was born in Huntsville, Alabama on December 16, 1918 to oil tycoon Marcellus Lixmalt and Glenda Lixmalt-Pierter. His childhood was quiet and unassuming, with no indication of the sheer insanity that was to come in his run for president in 1968. His father wanted him to take over the oil business, and initially, Dunderhoff followed these wishes, attending Yale.

After graduating from Yale, Dunderhoff began to work at his father's oil company, but the stock market market crash had begun to affect the business and in 1935, Lixmalt Oil Inc. went bankrupt. Uninterested in handling a failing oil company, Dunderhoff decided to pursue a career in politics, beginning with a run for mayor of Huntsville in 1940, which failed.

Time as Senator
Dunderhoff ran for office as an Alabama senator in 1946 as a Democrat, winning by a narrow margin. His term as a senator was extremely uneventful, and he did nothing of note in his time as a senator.