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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. [38] [39] An opposing faction nominated Gene C. Amondson for president and filed under the Prohibition banner in Louisiana.
Brief History of Prohibition and of the Prohibition Reform Party. New York: National Committee of the Prohibition Reform Party, 1880. Hon. James Black's Cleveland address. Address delivered at the opening of the National Prohibition Reform Party Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, June, 17th, 1880. New York: Prohibition Reform Party ...
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In 1878, he moved to Lincoln, Nebraska and became a member of the Democratic Party until 1880, when he rejoined the Prohibition Party. In 1882, he voted for James W. Dawes for governor due to J. Sterling Morton, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, being against prohibition, supported for lieutenant governor, and left the remainder of his ...
John Russell (September 20, 1822 – November 3, 1912) was a Methodist preacher who became a leading advocate for prohibition during the 1870s. [1] Russell helped organize the Prohibition Party, was its first National Committee Chairman, [2] and was the party's running mate for James Black in the 1872 United States presidential election.
James Arthur Hedges (May 10, 1938 – March 4, 2024) was an American politician who served as the tax assessor for Thompson Township, Pennsylvania and as the Prohibition Party's 2016 presidential nominee. He was the only member of the Prohibition Party to be elected to public office in the 21st century, and the first since 1959.
It was difficult to draw the line between papers that advocated prohibition in a nonpartisan way, and those that advocated the Prohibition Party method. The former would include nearly all the religions papers, and many Republican and Democratic papers. This list draws the line distinctly on the support of the Prohibition Party.
Historians agree that the Klan's resurgence in the 1920s was aided by the national debate over Prohibition. [26] The historian Prendergast says that the KKK's "support for Prohibition represented the single most important bond between Klansmen throughout the nation". [27] The Klan opposed bootleggers, sometimes with violence.