American politician and academic Jo Jorgensen is a member of the Libertarian Party. She created history, by becoming the first female presidential nominee of her party after she was selected by the party during the 2020 United States Presidential election with Spike Cohen as her running mate. She was also the only female during the election who secured access to more than 270 electoral votes. She went on to finish third in the popular vote during the election behind Democratic Party’s Joe Biden and Republican Party’s Donald Trump garnering over 1.8 million votes which comes to around 1.18% of the national total. She earlier contested as the party’s nominee in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District during the 1992 United States House of Representatives election; and for Vice President, as running mate of Harry Browne, during the 1996 United States Presidential election. A Ph.D. degree holder from Clemson University, Jorgensen is presently associated with the university as a full-time lecturer. She earlier had a stint with IBM as a marketing representative, and also became co-owner and President of DigiTech, Inc.
