David Nolan (libertarian)

David Fraser Nolan ( born November 23, 1943 in Washington, DC; † November 21, 2010 in Boulder, Colorado ) was an American politician. He founded in 1971 the Libertarian Party. His Nolan Chart applies in libertarian circles as a serious alternative to the political spectrum.

Life

Nolan spent his early youth in the U.S. state of Maryland. While at school he discovered the idea of ​​libertarianism by reading the science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein and the book Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand author of the political. He enrolled at MIT in order to gain a Masters degree in architecture, but ended in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in political science.

The 1970 he developed Nolan Chart claims to allow the overcoming of one-dimensional left-right scheme by splitting the economic than social freedom, however, is among other things criticized because of its libertarian bias.

In the Congress election in 2006 he was a candidate for the Libertarian Party in the U.S. state of Arizona and received two percent of the vote in his election district. In the election to the Senate in 2010 Nolan ran again, but managed to win only around 4.7 percent of the voters of Arizona.