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He also helped author the Capper–Volstead Act, which enabled farmers to form locally owned cooperatives without fear of prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act. The law is still in effect. Volstead was a member of the 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, 64th, 65th, 66th, and 67th congresses. He was defeated in his attempt to be elected to ...
The Andrew John Volstead House is the historic house in Granite Falls, Minnesota, of ten-term United States Congressman Andrew Volstead (1860–1947). It is now managed as a museum and the organizational headquarters of the Granite Falls Historical Society. [ 4 ]
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The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was an act of the 66th United States Congress designed to execute the 18th Amendment (ratified January 1919) which established the prohibition of alcoholic drinks.
Nellie Volstead, the spouse of Congressman Andrew Volstead and an important figure in the suffragette movement, and Dr. ... 20th anniversary winds back the clock for annual Meander arts crawl in ...
Andrew Volstead (1860–1947) 1979: Andrew Volstead was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Minnesota, 1903–1923, and a member of the Republican Party. He was the creator and proponent of the Capper–Volstead Act, sometimes referred to as the "farmer cooperative Magna Carta." [28] Robert Neptune: 1980 [29] M.W ...
The law was popularly named after congressman Andrew J. Volstead who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee that oversaw its passage. However, Volstead served as the legislation’s sponsor and facilitator rather than its author. It was the Anti-Saloon League’s Wayne Wheeler who conceived and drafted the bill.
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States. [1]Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, and was strongest in the South and rural North, drawing support from Protestant ministers and their congregations, especially Methodists, Baptists ...