Brian T. Carroll

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| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

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| party = American Solidarity Party

| movement = Christian democracy

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Brian Thomas Carroll (born December 15, 1949) is an American teacher who was the American Solidarity Party's presidential nominee in the 2020 United States presidential election.{{cite web |last1=Griswold |first1=Lewis |title=Five challengers want to boot Devin Nunes from his safe seat |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/local-election/article210329274.html |website=The Fresno Bee|date=May 28, 2018|access-date=April 13, 2019}} He is a proponent of Christian democracy.

Life and career

Carroll received his bachelor's degree in history from UCLA and earned a teaching credential at California State University, Los Angeles. He taught junior high history and other subjects in Farmersville, California from 1977 to 1983.{{cite web |last1=Hanink |first1=James |last2=Bartko |first2=Matthew |title=WCAT Radio The Open Door (April 5, 2019) |url=https://www.spreaker.com/user/wcatradio/wcat-radio-the-open-door-040519 |website=The Open Door |publisher=Spreaker |access-date=April 15, 2019 |date=April 5, 2019}} During that time, he also wrote for the Valley Voice newspaper, focusing primarily on the local need for public transportation.{{cite web |last1=Holman |first1=Ron |title=Brian T. Carroll: Candidate for U.S. Congress, District 22 |url=https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/videos/news/2018/05/03/brian-t-carroll-u-s-congress-district-22/578803002/ |website=Visalia Times Delta |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305063142/https://www.visaliatimesdelta.com/videos/news/2018/05/03/brian-t-carroll-u-s-congress-district-22/578803002/ |url-status=dead }} Carroll has taught students in Colombia and China and traveled extensively throughout Europe and Brazil. As an amateur naturalist, his work has been cited in studies on spiders and insects.{{cite book |last1=Watt |first1=Alistair |title=Robert Fortune: A Plant Hunter in the Orient |date=October 15, 2017 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |page=187}}{{cite journal| last=Levi| first=H. W.| year=1995| title=Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous, and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae).| journal=Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology| pages=153–213| volume=154}} In 2008, he returned to teaching in Farmersville.{{cite web |last1=Briggs |first1=Mike |title=Brian T. Carroll, Candidate for Congress, CA 22, on Mike & Athena |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os-8aID21h8 |website=YouTube |date=March 28, 2018 |access-date=April 14, 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Steen |first1=Greg |title=Brian T. Carroll, Candidate for Congress, CA 22, on Truth 4 Seniors |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuxgBOB2nA4 |website=YouTube |date=March 28, 2018 |access-date=April 13, 2019}}

2018 California congressional campaign

Carroll ran for California's twenty-second congressional district in 2018, campaigning against Republican incumbent Devin Nunes and Democrat Andrew Janz. This was a contentious election due to Nunes' role in the 2018 Trump–Russia investigation.{{cite web |last1=Stracqualursi |first1=Veronica |title=Rep. Nunes' Democratic opponents capitalizing on memo release |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/03/politics/democratic-california-house-candidates-nunes-memo/index.html |website=CNN |date=February 3, 2018 |access-date=April 13, 2019}} Carroll received 1,591 votes in the top-two primary, placing fifth in a field of six candidates. During the general election (after Carroll's elimination), Janz claimed that Carroll had endorsed him; Carroll publicly denied this claim.{{cite web |last1=Appleton |first1=Rory |title=Candidate denies fellow Nunes challenger Janz's claims of support |date=June 27, 2018|url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/political-notebook/article213921999.html |website=The Fresno Bee |access-date=April 13, 2019}}

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