Bill Van Auken (born 1950) is a politician and activist for the Socialist Equality Party and was a presidential candidate in the U.S. election of 2004, announcing his candidacy on January 27, 2004. His running mate was Jim Lawrence. He came in 15th for the popular vote, receiving 1,857 votes. blank">http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2004/federalelections2004.pdf In November 2006, Van Auken ran for the _United States Senate seat held by Hillary Clintonblank">http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/elec-m212.shtml. He finished in fifth place, with 11,071 votes http://www.elections.state.ny.us/NYSBOE/elections/2006/general/2006_ussen.pdf

Van Auken is a full time reporter for the _World Socialist Web Site, and resides in New York City.