Margarette Leach

Margarette Faye Riggins Leach was an American Democratic politician from West Virginia, best known for being a faithless elector during the 1988 [United States presidential election].
She pledged to vote for Michael Dukakis for President of [the United States] and Lloyd Bentsen for Vice President of the [United States]. However, she cast her vote for Bentsen as President and Dukakis as Vice President as a form of protest against the electoral college's winner-take-all system.
Leach was later a seven-term member of the West [Virginia House of Delegates], representing the 15th district. She won the Democratic primary for an additional term, but lost the general election in 2006.
Leach died December 23, 2007.