Bill Shearer
William Kennedy Shearer (January 21, 1931 – March 3, 2007) of California was the chairman of the Constitution Party from 1996 to 1999. Earlier, in 1967, he and his wife Eileen Knowland, a cousin of Republican former U.S. Senator William F. Knowland, co-founded the American Independent Party to support Alabama Governor George C. Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign.
In 1970, Shearer was the AIP's first gubernatorial candidate in California, receiving 65,847 votes (1 percent) in a race won by Ronald Reagan. Shearer died at the age of 76 in San Diego.
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