Nation Day After Long Fight Prohibition Adopted
The United States ratified the eighteenth amendment making the manufacture sale and transportation of intoxicating liquors illegal in the U S and all territories for beverage purposes. Congress proposed the amendment in 1917 and states ratified it by January 1910 within thirteen months, the fastest ever aside from slavery abolition.
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United States
States of the Union
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
H. W. Blair
New Whompshire
Hobson
Alabama
Prohibition Party Centennial and Women’s Crusade
The article traces the Prohibition party from its 1872 national ticket to its 1884 surge led by John P. St John and Frances Willard. It notes early leaders like James Black and John Russell, and details vote counts and successive candidates through 1916, highlighting the WCTU’s pivotal role and the global push for world prohibition led by Miss Willard and the World WCTU.
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National Prohibition Party
Farewell Hall
Cllidge
Good Templars
Total Abstainers
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Grand Lodge of the Good Templars
Oswego
N. Y
John Russell
Detroit
J. A. Spencer
Cleveland
James Black
Lancaster
John N. Stearns
New York
Daniel Wilkins
Bloomington
Ill
First National
Washington
Columbus
Black
Good Templar
National Temperance Society and Publication House
Camp Meeting Association
Ocean Grove
N. J
Russell
Prohibition
Peninsular Herald
Green Clay Sulth
Kentucky
Gideon T. Steiwart
Neal Dow
Maine
H. A. Thompson
Clinois
Kansas
New York State
James G. Blaine
Grover Cleveland
St. John
Republians
New -York State
Joh
Repuban
Clinton
Maryland
Hale Johnson
Ilinois
John G. Woolley
Illinois
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Swallow
George B. Carroll
Texas
Eugene W. Chafin
Inois
Aaron
Watkins
Ohio
Eugene W. ‘Chafin
Arizona
J. Frank Hantey
Indiana
Ira Londritti
Tennessee
Prohibition Reformers Neal Dow Frances Willard Carrie Nation
The piece notes Neal Dow known as a Pennsylvanian reformer and Portland mayor linked to the main law of 1851. Frances Willard is highlighted for founding and leading the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union with branches worldwide. Carrie Nation is described as a temperance advocate tied to Kansas and the lodge movement.
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Loyal Temperance Legion
Young Peoples
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Miss Willard
Miss. Willard
Evanston
Til
Neal -Dow
Parenta
Portland
Volun
Neal Dow
Deptha
United
Frances E. ‘Willard
Nw’ Y
Frances Willard
Carrie
David
Nation Lodge
Kan
Carrie Nation
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Nebraska
Sheppard
Severn States
Champ Clark
Thomas R. Marshall
James M. Baker
House
Mississippi
Virginia
South Carolina
North Dakota
Ant
San Francisco
Stephens
Arkansas
Colorado
Nevada
New
Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Utah
Missouri
West Virginia
Montana
California
Delaware
South Dakota
Arkansag Maassachusetts
Minors
North Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Florida
Iowa
Michigan
New Hampshire
Idaho
Nebraska Maing
John P. St. John
Lttte
Secon
Chautauqua
N. C
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances B. Willard
Bieta Frances
Willard Zeader
Frances
Willard
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