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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.
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Rutherford Losey Decker (May 27, 1904 – September 21, 1972) was an American politician who was a longtime member and a Presidential nominee of Prohibition Party in 1960, and the president of the National Association of Evangelicals from 1946 to 1948. [1] Decker was born in Elmira, New York. [2]
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.
Apr. 2—The Prohibition Party is in the midst of an unwanted dry spell that seems endless. Many residents of modern America have never heard of the party of teetotalers, established in 1869. The ...
Herman Preston Faris was born on December 25, 1858, in Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Samuel D. Faris and Sarah Plumber Finks.His family later moved to Lawrence, Kansas. [1] He later moved to Clinton, Missouri in 1867, he would temporarily leave it for Colorado in the 1870s and returned, where he became a successful banker, but suffered financial difficulties shortly before his death.