He has been arrested more than 40 times,[2] including for violating a no-trespass order from the University of Notre Dame to protest against a visit by President Barack Obama.

He was the Constitution Party nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 presidential election, and his running mate was Stephen Broden.

Terry was named as a co-defendant in the 1994 Supreme Court case, NOW v. Scheidler, a class-action suit to compel Pro-Life leaders to compensate clinics for loss of business.

[4] In 1990, Terry helped to organize protests outside the hospital where Nancy Cruzan was a patient, around the time when her feeding tube was removed.

In 1994, Terry was a named defendant in Madsen v. Women's Health Center Inc. which ultimately made it all the way to the US Supreme Court.

Terry competed with radio station owner William "Bud" Walker for the Republican nomination to face Democratic incumbent Maurice Hinchey.

On March 20, 2009, the White House announced that President Barack Obama was going to speak at the May 17 Commencement of the University of Notre Dame.

In an article which was published in the university's newspaper, The Observer, Terry was quoted as stating that he planned to turn the commencement into "a circus."

[11][12] On the same day, June 1, Terry released a video in which he called president Barack Obama and pro-choice politicians "child killers", and he also stated that Tiller was a "mass murderer" who "reaped what he sowed."

In an editorial, the Albany Times-Union, accused Terry of undermining the credibility of the "generally peaceful" anti-abortion movement.

[17] In January 2011, Terry announced his intention to challenge President Barack Obama in the Democratic Party primaries for the presidential election of 2012.

[21] The attempt to air the ads led to legal action[22] and a statement by the Democratic National Committee that Terry was not a legitimate candidate,[23] and thus should be forbidden privileges given others running.

In December 2011, he became the physical target of candidate Vermin Supreme, who sprinkled glitter over his head during a debate, claiming he was "turning Randall Terry gay.

[32] In August 2024, The New York Times reported that some Democratic Party donors and operatives were assisting Terry's ballot access efforts and seeking to promote his campaign among pro-life voters, in order to help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris by taking votes from Donald Trump.

After dropping out of high school, hitch-hiking around the United States, and returning home to work in various jobs, he attended Elim Bible Institute, graduating in 1981.

[8][41] In 1998, when Terry was accused of advocating racism while he was running for Congress, his son Jamiel stepped forward to defend him.

[8] When he learned that the Out article was going to be published,[8] Terry pre-empted Jamiel by writing an essay, "My Prodigal Son, the Homosexual", in which he writes of pain and disappointment, blames Jamiel's homosexuality and his other troubles on his childhood experiences, and contends that much of the Out Magazine article is false and was written by other people.

He talks about how I prostitute the family's name, but he's used the fact that he saved my sister from abortion and rescued me from hardship in his speeches and interviews.

"[8] In 2000, Terry divorced Cindy Dean, his wife of 19 years,[8] and married his former church assistant, Andrea Sue Kollmorgen.

[40][41][42] Kollmorgen, born c. 1976, was approximately 25 years old at the time of their nuptials;[43] As a consequence of the divorce, the home on 119 acres (0.48 km2) where he had lived with Cindy and their four children was going to be sold.

[42] In 2000, some in the press unfavorably compared his decision to divorce Cindy Dean and marry Kollmorgen to the opinion which he expressed in his 1995 book, The Judgment of God: "Families are destroyed as a father vents his mid-life crisis by abandoning his wife for a 'younger, prettier model.'

[45] After a period of study which commenced in 2005, Terry formally converted to Catholicism in 2006, taking the confirmation name David Mark.

[8] Five years into his second marriage, a 2006 article in the National Catholic Register described his current family as "his three, soon to be four, rambunctious young boys.

"[46] Terry's second wife, Andrea, is also an Pro-Life activist and in 2008, she was arrested for trespassing while she was leafleting a Catholic cathedral parking lot with campaign fliers for a fictitious candidate who was advocating the enslavement of African-Americans.

Terry stated, "The piece was intended to be incendiary and basically a satire," a protest against vehicles in the church parking lot which, he said, carried bumper stickers supporting pro-choice political candidates, particularly Rudy Giuliani.