Nation Day After Long Fight Ratifies Prohibition Amendment
Mississippi led ratification of the Sheppard Prohibition Amendment, adding the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution. States followed in rapid order as Congress had proposed the amendment for nationwide ban on manufacturing and sale of intoxicating liquors.
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Nebraska
Sheppard
United States
Union
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Congress
Beneto
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Thomas R. Marshall
Senate
James M. Baker
House
Mississippi
Virginia
Kentucky
South Carolina
North Dakota
H. W. Blair
New Hampshire
Hobson
Alabama
San Francisco
Stephens
Arkansas
Colorado
Maine
Nevada
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oregon
Utah
Washington
Missouri
Anti-Saloon League
Prohibition Party Rise and Women Power in 19th Century Campaign
The article traces the Prohibition party's 50 year arc from its Chicago 1872 convention to 1884 shift led by Frances Willard of the WCTU. It notes John P St John as 1884 candidate, earlier tickets, and women driving the movement since 1873 including the 1874 Cleveland convention forming the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union with Willard's resolutions.
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National Prohibition Party
Farwell Hall
Chicago
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 York
Daniel Wilkins
Bloomington
Washington
Columbus
Black
Good Templar
National Temperance Society and Publication House
Camp Meeting Association
Ocean Grove
N. J
Russell
Prohibition Party
Peninsular Herald
Prohibition
Green Clay Smith
Kentucky
Gideon T. Stewart
Neal Dow
Maine
H. A. Thompson
St. John’s
Frances E. Willard
Miss Willard
Bentley
Nebraska
Southgate
Illinois
Clinton B. Fisk
New Jersey
J. A. Brooks
Missouri
John Bidwell
California
J. B. Cranfill
Texas
Joshua, Levering
Maryland
Hale Johnson
John G. Woolley
H. B. Metcalf
Rhode Island
S. C. Swallow
George B. Carroll
Eugene W. Chafin
Aaron S. Watkins
Ohio
Arizona
J. Frank Hanley
Indiana
Ira Landrith
Tennessee
Chautauqua
Woman’s College
The
National
S. Christan. Temperance Union
Frances
Willard
Frances Willard and Carrie Nation in Prohibition Era
A retrospective on world famous prohibition figures Frances Willard Carrie Nation Neal Dow and John B Gough. It notes Dow as Father of the Maine Law and Nation as a saloon smasher and details their roles shaping state and national prohibition from 1851 onward.
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Neal Dow
Maine
John B. Gough
Frances H. Willard
Carrie Nation
Portland
Maine Volunteers
Libby
General Dow
England
United States
Massachusetts
Frances Willard
Frances BE. Willard
Churchville
Nic
Northwestern Female College
Evanston
Til
Northwestern University
Carrie Nation's
Kansas
Gally
Kiowa
Wichita
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Iowa
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Aya
West Virginia
Montana
Delaware
South Dakota
North Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Florida
Michigan
Idaho
John P
St. John
Anto
Loyal Temperance Legion
Young Peoples
Frances E.willard
Francis Murphy
Topeka
Stanley
West, Virginia
District of
Hampshire
Mexico
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