Andrew Verne Marrou (/məˈruː/; December 4, 1938) is an American politician who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from the 5th district as a member of the Libertarian Party from 1985 to 1987.
He was one of the first people to receive a National Merit Scholarship and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's degree in 1962.
[5] Marrou was a member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary in Massachusetts and Civil Air Patrol in Alaska.
[3] Marrou ran for Seat B from the 5th district in the Alaska House of Representatives in 1982, but placed second out of three candidates.
He was elected to the state house in 1984, after defeating incumbent Republican Representative Milo Fritz by 56 votes.
Marrou was the third Libertarian member of the state house after Dick Randolph and Ken Fanning.
[20] Marrou received one write-in vote in the New Hampshire Libertarian vice-presidential primary during the 1996 presidential election.
[23] He wanted a woman to serve as his vice-presidential running mate and favored Mary Ruwart, but she lost the nomination to Nancy Lord.
Several of his former campaign staffers sought to have him removed as the party's presidential nominee because he had unpaid child support, could not enter Massachusetts without being arrested for outstanding contempt of court charges, claimed to have been married twice when it was in fact four times, investigated for campaign improprieties from his time in Alaska, was reportedly running up unpaid credit card bills in a campaign PAC's name without their approval, and was habitually months late in making his house payments.
[28] Marrou meant to participate in a debate in Richmond, Virginia, with Lenora Fulani and a representative for Lyndon LaRouche on October 15.
[30] Marrou wanted to accept matching funds as "it is a moral imperative that we reclaim looted tax money and use it to defend ourselves".
[34] Marrou supports abolishing the Internal Revenue Service, Federal Reserve, and income tax.