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The Prohibition Party (PRO) is a political party in the United States
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 best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcohol
Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
ic beverages. The Party was an integral part of the temperance movement
Temperance movement

A temperance movement attempts to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed within a community or society in general -- and even to prohibit its production and consumption entirely....
 and, while never one of the nation's leading parties, it was an important force in US politics
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 in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. The party has declined dramatically since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933.






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The Prohibition Party (PRO) is a political party in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcohol
Alcohol

In chemistry, an alcohol is any organic compound in which a hydroxyl Functional group is bound to a carbon atom of an alkyl or substituted alkyl group....
ic beverages. The Party was an integral part of the temperance movement
Temperance movement

A temperance movement attempts to reduce the amount of alcohol consumed within a community or society in general -- and even to prohibit its production and consumption entirely....
 and, while never one of the nation's leading parties, it was an important force in US politics
Politics of the United States

Politics of the United States takes place in the framework of a presidential system, federal republic where the President of the United States , United States Congress, and United States federal courts share federal Separation of powers, and the Federal government of the United States shares sovereignty with the U.S....
 in the late 19th century and the early years of the 20th century. The party has declined dramatically since the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. Today, it advocates a variety of socially conservative causes, including "stronger and more vigorous enforcement of laws against the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, against gambling, illegal drugs, pornography, and commercialized vice."

History

The party was founded in 1869. Its first National Committee Chairman was John Russell of Michigan. . The party succeeded in getting many communities also many counties in the states to outlaw the production and sale of intoxicating beverages.

National Prohibition Convention 1892
At the same time, the party's ideology broadened to include aspects of progressivism
Progressivism

The term progressive has varying meanings in different countries.In some countries, the word refers to left-wing politics. For instance, in the United States, the term progressive emerged in the late 19th century into the 20th century in reference to a more general response to the vast changes brought by industrialization: an alternativ...
. The party contributed to the third-party discussions of the 1910s and sent Charles H. Randall to the 64th
64th United States Congress

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, 65th
65th United States Congress

The Sixty-fifth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
 and 66th
66th United States Congress

The Sixty-sixth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, comprising the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives....
 Congresses as the representative of California's 9th congressional district
California's 9th congressional district

California's 9th congressional district covers a significant portion of the East Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes the cities of Oakland, California and Berkeley, California, among others....
. Prohibitionist Sidney J. Catts
Sidney J. Catts

Sidney Johnston Catts was an Politics of the United States. He was the twenty-second List of Governors of Florida of Florida and with Congressman Charles Randall of California one of only two members of the Prohibition Party to ever hold office....
 was elected Governor of Florida
List of governors of Florida

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 in 1916.

The party's greatest success was in 1919, with the passage of the 18th Amendment
Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Amendment XVIII of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act , established Prohibition in the United States. Its ratification was certified on January 29, 1919....
 to the United States Constitution
United States Constitution

The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It is the foundation and source of the legal authority underlying the existence of the United States of America; the Federal Government of the United States; and all the State & local governments and Territorial Administrative bodies contained therein....
, which outlawed the production, sale, transportation, import and export of alcohol. The era during which alcohol was illegal in the United States is generally known as "Prohibition
Prohibition

Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as The Noble Experiment, refers to a sumptuary law which prohibits alcohol....
".

During the Prohibition era, the Prohibition Party pressed for stricter enforcement of the prohibition laws. In 1928, for example, the party considered endorsing Republican Herbert Hoover rather than running their own candidate. However, by a 4-3 vote, the party's national executive committee voted to nominate their own candidate, William F. Varney, instead. They did this because they felt his stance on prohibition wasn't strict enough. The party became even more critical of President Hoover after he was elected. By 1932, party chairman David Leigh Colvin thundered that "The Republican wet plank [i.e. supporting the repeal of Prohibition] means that Mr. Hoover is the most conspicuous turncoat since Benedict Arnold." Hoover lost, but national prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition in the United States....
 in 1933.

Decline


The party has faded into obscurity after World War II. When the party briefly changed its name to the "National Statesman Party," in 1977 (it would change it back in 1980) Time magazine suggested that it was "doubtful" that the name change would "hoist the party out of the category of political oddity."

The party has continued running presidential candidates every four years, but its vote totals have steadily dwindled. It last received more than 100,000 votes for president in 1948, and the 1976 election was the last time the party received more than 10,000 votes for president. In 2008 its presidential nominee received only 643 votes.

Secession of 2003

The Prohibition Party experienced a schism in 2003, as the party's prior presidential candidate, Earl Dodge, incorporated a rival party called the National Prohibition Party in Colorado. Dodge held a rival nominating convention in his living room in August 2003, attended by eight people, and was nominated as the president of this rival party.. Dodge's rivals convened a party convention in 2003 in Fairfield Glade, TN and elected Don Webb, a member of the National Committee from Alabama, the national chairman. Neither the Dodge faction nor the Webb faction recognized the other as legitimate.

The Webb faction decided in early February 2004 to run the national ticket of Gene C. Amondson
Gene Amondson

Gene Amondson, is a landscape painter, woodcarver, minister, lecturer and Prohibition activist who was the U.S. presidential election, 2004 United States President of the United States candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party and the nominee of the party in United States presidential election, 2008....
 for President and Leroy J. Pletten for Vice President. They filed as the Prohibition ticket in Louisiana (the first time the party had appeared on the ballot there since 1888). Dodge ran under the name of the historic Prohibition Party in Colorado., while the Concerns of People Party allowed Amondson to run on its line against Dodge.

Amondson was elected chairman in 2005, replacing Webb. It then accepted the party affiliates in Florida, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, gaining ballot status in Florida for 2008.The death of Dodge in November 2007 left the Dodge faction without a presidential nominee, but the schism has continued. In the spring of 2008, the Dodge faction nominated Amondson for President, but they retained Lydick as their vice presidential nominee..

The trustee of the George Pennock Fund initiated legal proceedings to determine which faction was the legal recipient of funds left to the party in the 1920s and 1930's. To avoid litigation, the two separate Parties agreed to divide the money, with the "historic" Party getting slightly over 50%.

Electoral history

The Prohibition Party has nominated a candidate for president in every election since 1872, and is thus the longest-lived American political party after the Democrats and Republicans.

Prohibition Party National Campaigns
Year Convention Site & City Dates Presidential nominee VP nominee Votes
1872 1st Comstock's Opera House, Columbus OH 2/22/1872 James Black
James Black (prohibitionist)

James Black became a leader of the temperance movement in the United States after having a bad experience with alcohol intoxication, if not alcohol poisoning....
 PA
John Russell MI 2,100
1876 2d Halle's Hall, Cleveland OH 5/17/1876 Green Clay Smith
Green Clay Smith

Green Clay Smith was a U.S. soldier and politician. He served as a Major general during the American Civil War, was a congressman from Kentucky and was the Governors of Montana Territory from 1866 to 1869....
 KY
Gideon T. Stewart
Gideon T. Stewart

Lawyer and newspaper owner-editor Gideon Tabor Stewart was very active in promoting the temperance movement. He was elected three timess as grand worthy chief templar of the International Organisation of Good Templars of Ohio....
 OH
6,743
1880 3d Halle's Hall, Cleveland OH 6/17/1880 Neal Dow ME Henry A. Thompson OH 9,674
1884 4th Lafayette Hall, Pittsburgh PA 7/23-24/1884 John P. St. John KS William Daniel
William Daniel

William Daniel was an American politician. He graduated from Dickinson College, studied law, and began practicing it in Maryland in 1851. Upon election to the state legislature in 1857, he promoted laws permitting local option regarding the prohibition of alcohol....
 MD
147,520
1888 5th Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis IN 5/30-31/1888 Clinton B. Fisk
Clinton B. Fisk

Clinton Bowen Fisk , for whom Fisk University is named, was a senior officer during Reconstruction era of the United States in the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands....
 NJ
John A. Brooks MO 249,813
1892 6th Music Hall, Cincinnati OH 6/29-30/1892 John Bidwell
John Bidwell

John Bidwell was known throughout California and across the nation as an important settler, farming, soldier, statesman, politician, prohibitionist and philanthropist....
 CA
James B. Cranfill TX 270,770
1896 7th Exposition Hall, Pittsburgh PA 5/27-28/1896 Joshua Levering
Joshua Levering

Joshua Levering was a prominent Baptist leader . He was president of the trustees of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention, co-founder of the American Baptist Educational Society, and co-founder of the Layman's Missionary Movement....
 MD
Hale Johnson
Hale Johnson

Attorney Hale Johnson , was an American politician. He was born in Montgomery County, Indiana and was the son of John B. Johnson.Johnson was a lawyer and became mayor of Newton, Illinois....
 IL
125,072
[7th] Pittsburgh PA 5/28/1896 Charles E. Bentley NE James H. Southgate NC 19,363
1900 8th First Regiment Armory, Chicago IL 6/27/28/1900 John G. Woolley IL Henry B. Metcalf RI 209,004
[8th] Carnegie Lyceum, NYC NY 9/5/1900 Donelson Caffery
Donelson Caffery

Donelson Caffery was an American politician from the state of Louisiana.Caffery was born in Franklin, Louisiana, the seat of St. Mary Parish....
 LA (declined);
Edward M. Emerson MA
Archibald M. Howe MA 342
1904 9th Tomlinson Hall, Indianapolis IN 6/29 to 7/1/1904 Silas C. Swallow
Silas C. Swallow

Silas Comfort Swallow was a United States Methodist preacher and prohibitionist politician....
 PA
George W. Carroll TX 258,596
1908 10th Memorial Hall, Columbus OH 7/15-16/1908 Eugene W. Chafin
Eugene W. Chafin

Eugene Wilder Chafin was an United States politician from the United States Prohibition Party. Chafin was born in East Troy, Wisconsin and worked as a lawyer at Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1876 to 1900....
 IL
Aaron S. Watkins
Aaron S. Watkins

Aaron S. Watkins , born in Ohio, was president of Asbury College in Kentucky. Before his ordination as a Methodist minister, he practiced law with his brother....
 OH
252,821
1912 11th on a large temporary pier, Atlantic City NJ 7/10-12/1912 Eugene W. Chafin
Eugene W. Chafin

Eugene Wilder Chafin was an United States politician from the United States Prohibition Party. Chafin was born in East Troy, Wisconsin and worked as a lawyer at Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1876 to 1900....
 IL
Aaron S. Watkins
Aaron S. Watkins

Aaron S. Watkins , born in Ohio, was president of Asbury College in Kentucky. Before his ordination as a Methodist minister, he practiced law with his brother....
 OH
207,972
1916 12th St. Paul MN 7/19-21/1916 J. Frank Hanly
Frank Hanly

James Franklin Hanly was a United States politician who served as the 26th Governor of Indiana from 1905 to 1909....
 IN
Ira Landrith TN 221,030
1920 13th Lincoln NE 7/21-22/1920 Aaron Watkins OH D. Leigh Colvin
D. Leigh Colvin

David Leigh Colvin, usually known as D. Leigh Colvin was the Prohibition Party's candidate for U.S. Senator from New York in 1916, the party's candidate for mayor of New York City in 1917, its candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States in 1920, candidate for U.S....
 NY
188,685
1924 14th Memorial Hall, Columbus OH 6/4-6/1924 Herman P. Faris
Herman P. Faris

Herman P. Faris was a committed proponent of the temperance movement. He served for many years as treasurer of the Prohibition National Committee, and he was twice the Prohibition Party candidate for governor of Missouri....
 MO
Marie C. Brehm
Marie C. Brehm

Suffragette Marie Caroline Brehm was the first legally qualified female candidate to run for the Vice President of the United States, which she did in 1924 on the ticket of the Prohibition Party running with Herman P....
 CA
54,833
1928 15th Hotel LaSalle, Chicago IL 7/10-12/1928 William F. Varney
William F. Varney

William F. Varney ran on the Prohibition ticket during the 1928 U.S. Presidential election. He received 20,106 popular votes.References...
 NY
James A. Edgerton 20,095
[15th] [California ticket] Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . Besides his political career, Hoover was a professional mining engineer and author....
 CA
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis

  Charles Curtis was a United States United States House of Representatives, a longtime United States Senate from Kansas elected to Senate Majority Leader, as well as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States....
 KS
14,394
1932 16th Candle Tabernacle, Indianapolis IN 7/5-7/1932 William D. Upshaw
William D. Upshaw

William D. Upshaw served eight years in Congress , where he was such a strong proponent of the temperance movement that he became known as the "driest of the drys."....
 GA
Frank S. Regan IL 81,916
1936 17th State Armory Building, Niagara Falls NY 5/5-7/1936 D. Leigh Colvin
D. Leigh Colvin

David Leigh Colvin, usually known as D. Leigh Colvin was the Prohibition Party's candidate for U.S. Senator from New York in 1916, the party's candidate for mayor of New York City in 1917, its candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States in 1920, candidate for U.S....
 NY
Alvin York TN (declined);
Claude A. Watson
Claude A. Watson

Claude A. Watson was a lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon, Los Angeles , who was nationally active in the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1936 and was the party's presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948....
 CA
37,668
1940 18th Chicago IL 5/8-10/1940 Roger W. Babson
Roger Babson

Roger Ward Babson , remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century....
 MA
Edgar V. Moorman IL 58,743
1944 19th Indianapolis IN 11/10-12/1943 Claude A. Watson
Claude A. Watson

Claude A. Watson was a lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon, Los Angeles , who was nationally active in the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1936 and was the party's presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948....
 CA
Floyd C. Carrier MD (withdrew);
Andrew Johnson KY
74,735
1948 20th Winona Lake IN 6/26-28/1947 Claude A. Watson
Claude A. Watson

Claude A. Watson was a lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon, Los Angeles , who was nationally active in the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1936 and was the party's presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948....
 CA
Dale H. Learn PA 103,489
1952 21st Indianapolis IN 11/13-15/1951 Stuart Hamblen CA Enoch A. Holtwick
Enoch A. Holtwick

Enoch Arden Holtwick, was an United States educator with a long record of actively supporting the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Illinois State Treasurer in 1936; its candidate for United States Senate from Illinois in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1950; its candidate for vice-president of the United State...
 IL
73,413
1956 22d Camp Mack, Milford IN 9/4-6/1955 Enoch A. Holtwick
Enoch A. Holtwick

Enoch Arden Holtwick, was an United States educator with a long record of actively supporting the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Illinois State Treasurer in 1936; its candidate for United States Senate from Illinois in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1950; its candidate for vice-president of the United State...
 IL
Herbert C. Holdridge
Herbert C. Holdridge

Herbert Charles Holdridge was an United States military officer, who was best known for being the only United States Army General to retire during World War II, and for having several times sought US President nominations on fringe party tickets after retirement....
 CA (withdrew);
Edwin M. Cooper CA
41,937
1960 23d Westminster Hotel, Winona Lake IN 9/1-3/1959 Rutherford Decker
Rutherford Decker

Rutherford L. Decker was an United States politician, a longtime member and a POTUS nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960.A native and lifelong resident of Missouri, he was nominated by Prohibitionist for President with party chairman Earle Harold Munn as his running-mate....
 MO
E. Harold Munn
E. Harold Munn

Earle Harold Munn, also known as E. Harold Munn was a United States politician and a longtime leader of Prohibition Party, for which he was Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominee....
 MI
46,193
1964 24th Pick Congress Hotel, Chicago IL 8/26-27/1963 E. Harold Munn
E. Harold Munn

Earle Harold Munn, also known as E. Harold Munn was a United States politician and a longtime leader of Prohibition Party, for which he was Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominee....
 MI
Mark R. Shaw
Mark R. Shaw

Mark R. Shaw was a Prohibition Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1946, United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1952, United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1958, United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1960, United States Senate election in Massa...
 MA
23,266
1968 25th YWCA, Detroit MI 6/28-29/1968 E. Harold Munn
E. Harold Munn

Earle Harold Munn, also known as E. Harold Munn was a United States politician and a longtime leader of Prohibition Party, for which he was Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominee....
 MI
Rolland E. Fisher KS 14,915
1972 26th Nazarene Church Building, Wichita KS 6/24-25/1971 E. Harold Munn
E. Harold Munn

Earle Harold Munn, also known as E. Harold Munn was a United States politician and a longtime leader of Prohibition Party, for which he was Presidential and Vice-Presidential nominee....
 MI
Marshall E. Uncapher KS 12,818
1976 27th Beth Eden Baptist Church Building, Wheat Ridge CO 6/26-27/1975 Benjamin C. Bubar ME Earl F. Dodge CO 15,934
1980 28th Motel Birmingham, Birmingham AL 6/20-21/1979 Benjamin C. Bubar ME Earl F. Dodge CO 7,212
1984 29th Mandan ND 6/22-24/1983 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
Warren C. Martin KS 4,242
1988 30th Heritage House, Springfield IL 6/25-26/1987 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
George Ormsby PA 8,002
1992 31st Minneapolis MN 6/24-26/1991 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
George Ormsby PA 935
1996 32d Denver CO 1995 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
Rachel Bubar Kelly
Rachel Bubar Kelly

Rachel Bubar Kelly was the Prohibition Party candidate for United States Vice President in the United States presidential election, 1996 presidential election as the running mate of Earl F....
 
1,298
2000 33d Bird in Hand PA 6/28-30/1999 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
W. Dean Watkins AZ 208
2004 34th Fairfield Glade TN 2/1/2004 Gene Amondson
Gene Amondson

Gene Amondson, is a landscape painter, woodcarver, minister, lecturer and Prohibition activist who was the U.S. presidential election, 2004 United States President of the United States candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party and the nominee of the party in United States presidential election, 2008....
 AK
Leroy Pletten
Leroy Pletten

Leroy Pletten was the Prohibition Party's Vice President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. He was chosen as the vice presidential candidate by the Prohibition Party National Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana....
 MI
1,944
[34th] Lakewood CO August 2003 Earl Dodge
Earl Dodge

Earl Farwell Dodge, Jr. was a long-time temperance movement leader and a politician of the Prohibition Party, from the U.S. state of Colorado....
 CO
Howard Lydick TX 140
2008 35th Adams Mark Hotel, Indianapolis IN 9/13-14/2007 Gene Amondson
Gene Amondson

Gene Amondson, is a landscape painter, woodcarver, minister, lecturer and Prohibition activist who was the U.S. presidential election, 2004 United States President of the United States candidate for one faction of the Prohibition Party and the nominee of the party in United States presidential election, 2008....
 AK
Leroy Pletten
Leroy Pletten

Leroy Pletten was the Prohibition Party's Vice President of the United States in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. He was chosen as the vice presidential candidate by the Prohibition Party National Convention held in Indianapolis, Indiana....
 MI
643


Elected officials

  • Governor of Florida Sidney Johnston Catts:
  • U.S. Representative from California's 9th congressional district
    California's 9th congressional district

    California's 9th congressional district covers a significant portion of the East Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. It includes the cities of Oakland, California and Berkeley, California, among others....
     Charles Hiram Randall
    Charles Hiram Randall

    Charles Hiram Randall was a Politician from California.Randall was born in Auburn, Nebraska. He published newspapers in Kimball, Nebraska and Harrisburg, Nebraska from 1885 to 1892....
    :
  • Argonia, Kansas
    Argonia, Kansas

    Argonia is a city in Sumner County, Kansas, Kansas, United States. The population was 534 at the 2000 United States Census....
     Mayor Susanna M. Salter
    Susanna M. Salter

    Susanna "Dora" Madora Salter was a U.S. politician and activist. She served as mayor of Argonia, Kansas, becoming the first woman elected as mayor and the first women elected to any political office in the United States....
    : 1887 (the first woman mayor in the United States)
  • Thompson Township, Pennsylvania
    Thompson Township, Fulton County, Pennsylvania

    Thompson Township is a township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the township population was 998....
    , Tax Assessor Jim Hedges: 2002-present (first and only known office-holder of the 21st century)


See also

  • Robert P. Shuler
    Robert P. Shuler

    The Prohibition Party candidate who received the highest vote in any election in U.S. history was Rev. Robert P. Shuler. In the 1932 California election for the US Senate, he received 560,088 votes and carried Orange and Riverside counties....
  • List of political parties in the United States
    List of political parties in the United States

    This list of political parties in the United States contains past and present political party in politics of the United States....
  • Alcohol during and after prohibition
    Alcohol during and after prohibition

    There was consumption of alcohol both during and after prohibition.The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited the production, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States and was widely supported by the American public when it went into effect in 1920....
  • Temperance organizations
  • Prohibition Party presidential election results
    Prohibition Party presidential election results

    The U.S. Prohibition Party presidential election results are listed chronologically below.The Prohibition Party has run a candidate for the presidency of the United States every election year since 1872....
  • Scottish Prohibition Party
    Scottish Prohibition Party

    The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scotland political party founded in 1901. It was represented in the British House of Commons by Edwin Scrymgeour from 1922-1931, after he defeated Winston Churchill....


External links



Printed sources

  • James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections (NYC: MacMillan Library Reference, 1996)
  • S.B. Hinshaw, Ohio Elects the President: Our State's Role in Presidential Elections (Mansfield OH: Bookmasters, 1999)