Ralph Nader and the Protest Vote Ralph Nader was born on February 27,  1934 in Winstead, Connecticut, to Lebanese immigrants. His mother, Rose, came from Zahle, Lebanon to northwest Connecticut in 1925 to meet her husband, Nathre, who ran a diner highlighting his own baked goods. Ralph later used many of these recipes in his book,; they had four children, two girls and two boys. Below are the two oldest, Ralph and his older sister, Laura.  A lawyer, and well-known consumer advocate, he ran, like John Anderson and Ross Perot, as a third-party candidate under the Green Party, four times…