Donald Trump not first wild card running for top office - meet six others

It’s not just Donald Trump. The USA has a long history of jokers, eccentrics, and megalomaniacs running for the top office, from immortals to the king of the world, reports Robert Hume

Leonard Jones

When his fiancée jilted him, Leonard ‘Live-Forever’ Jones (1797-1868) turned to religion, joined the Shakers, and insisted he was immortal. In Kentucky, he planned to establish a “capital city of the world”, a heaven on earth, where members of the Live-Forever faith would reside, pray and fast, and where graveyards were unknown.