Herbert William "Herb" Titus (October 17, 1937 – June 20, 2021) was an American attorney, writer, and political candidate. He was the Constitution Party's nominee for Vice President during the 1996 presidential election.
Early life
Titus was born in Baker City, Oregon, on October 17, 1937. He attended Baker public schools, where he graduated as co-valedictorian of the class of 1955. Four years later he graduated from the University of Oregon, where he had served as student body president. Titus graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1962.
He was an active member of the Virginia Bar Association and was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and District of Columbia and Federal Circuits. He was also admitted to practice in the Army Court of Criminal Appeals and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. and then as Vice-President for Academic Affairs. Starting in 1986, Titus became the founding Dean of the College of Law and Government in Regent University.
Politics
Titus was the 1996 vice presidential nominee for the Constitution Party (then known as the U.S. Taxpayer's Party) as the running mate of the party founder Howard Phillips.
Along with his client, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Titus was an original drafter of the Constitution Restoration Act, which sought to take out of federal court jurisdiction appellate cases that involved public officials who acknowledged God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government, and provided for the impeachment of federal judges who disregarded the act. The act did not pass either time it was introduced, but its tenets were incorporated into the 2004 Republican Party platform.
Personal life
Residents of Chesapeake, Virginia, Titus and his wife, Marilyn, to whom he had been married 52 years at the time of his death, had four children and 15 grandchildren.
Titus died on June 20, 2021, a practicing lawyer until his death.