TUCSON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- David Nolan, a founder of the Libertarian Party, has died in Arizona at age 66, a party official said.
Nolan apparently was stricken suddenly Saturday night while driving in Tucson and was taken to a hospital, where he died Sunday, party Chairman Mark Hinkle told the Los Angeles Times. The cause of death had not been determined.
Nolan devised the Nolan Chart of ideologies, which classifies people according to their attitudes on personal and economic freedom.
"The chart made it easy to see how liberals, conservatives, populists and libertarians compared," Reason Foundation co-founder Robert Poole wrote.
"The government's job is to protect you; beyond that, it's up to you," Nolan told the Tucson Citizen in 2006,
Nolan, an advertising man and Young Republican activist, broke with Richard Nixon in 1971 when the president announced he was taking the dollar off the gold standard and imposing a 90-day, wage-and-price freeze to tame inflation. Months later, Nolan and his friends established the Libertarian Party.
Nolan ran for office several times himself, including an unsuccessful bid in a California House district in 2000. This year he was the Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate in Arizona against Republican incumbent John McCain.
