Nation wide prohibition ratified speeding to dry United States
The nation adopts the eighteenth amendment after swift Senate and House action and rapid state ratifications. Mississippi first to ratify, others follow incl Virginia Kentucky South Carolina North Dakota Nebraska Texas California Washington. Prohibition aimed at manufacturing sale and transport of intoxicating liquors becomes law, with nationwide effect planned July 1 1919 subject to ratification timelines.
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Nebraska
United States
Thomas R. Marshall
Senate
James M. Baker
House of Representatives
House
Mississippi
Virginia
Kentucky
South Carolina
North Dakota
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Congress
United States of America
H. W. Blair
New Hampshire
Hobson
Alabama
Works
California
San Francisco
Stephens
Arkansas
Colorado
Maine
Nevada
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Missouri
The
Anti-Saloon League
Topeka
Stanley
Chicago
Connecticut
Neal Dow
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Kansas
Idaho
Florida
Georgia
Tennessee
Arizona
South Dakota
Alaska
North Carolina
West Virginia
Ceesseres
Ear Town
District of Columbia
Michigan
Wyoming
Con
Prohibition Party's Fifty Year Fight And Rise
The article reviews the Prohibition party’s birth in 50 years ago in Chicago with 500 delegates from 19 states, its early tickets and votes, and St Johns vigorous campaigns. It notes Frances Willard and the WCTU backing 1884 and the party's long woman suffrage and temperance efforts. It also highlights the growth of the WCTU movement and its educational and civic programs.
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New York State
St. John
Bentley
Nebraska
Southgate
Illinois
National Prohibition Party
Farwell Hall
Chicago
The
Good Templars
Total Abstainers
Pennsylvania
Grand Lodge of the Good Templars
Oswego
N. Y
John Russell
Detroit
J. A. Spencer
Cleveland
James Black
Lancaster
John N. Stearns
New
National Temperance Society
Camp Meeting Association
Ocean Grove
N. J
Russell
Prohibition
Peninsular Herald
Green Clay Smith
Kentucky
Gideon T. Stewart
Neal Dow
Maine
H. A. Thompson
Kansas
Cold Water
Clinton B. Fisk
New Jersey
J. A. Brooks
Missouri
John Bidwell
California
J. B. Cranfill
Texas
Joshua Levering
Maryland
Hale Johnson
Iinois
John G. Wool
Indiana
Ira Landrith
Tennessee
Ohio
Chautauqua
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances E. Willard
Frances Willard
Nation of Prohibition Leaders Remembered in Carrie Nation Era
A retrospective recalls world famous temperance figures like Neal Dow John B Gough Frances Willard and Carrie Nation In recounting their lives it notes Dow the Maine law originator Goughs rise from saloon singer to lecturer Willard shaping the WCTU and Nations radical saloon busting fame and the long road to nationwide prohibition.
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Neal Dow
Maine
John B. Gough
Frances B. Willard
Carrie Nation
Portland
Maine Volunteers
Libby
General Dow
England
United States
Massachusetts
Frances Willard
Frances E. Willard
Churchville
N. Y
Northwestern Female College
Evanston, IL
Northwestern University
David Nation
Medicine
Lodge
Kan
Kansas
Kiowa
Wichita
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Sheppard
Champ Clark
Montana
Delaware
Soman Ison Toadeke Wortda
Aed
Carolina
Rupes - Towa
Newampshire
John P. St. John
Miss Willard
James G. Blaine
Grover Cleveland
Ww. Cc. T. U
Loyal
Temperance Legion
Young Peoples
Francis Murphy