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Originally a purely local order dedicated to closing bars on Sunday and advocating Temperance generally. It was reorganized into an assessment benefit order at a meeting of the Supreme Council on January 15, 1877. Membership was open to men and women. There were 20,000 beneficiary members and 30,000 social members in the late 1890s.
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The National Temperance Council was established in 1913 to coordinate the activities of numerous organizations in the temperance movement. [1] Its purpose included the promotion of alcohol education . [ 1 ]
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The American Temperance Society was the first U.S. social movement organization to mobilize massive and national support for a specific reform cause. Their objective was to become the national clearinghouse on the topic of temperance. [6] Within three years of its organization, ATS had spread across the country.
Committee on Temperance - William Louis Poteat: 1913–1914 Committee on Social Service 1 Arthur James Barton 1914–1920 Committee on Temperance and Social Service 1920–1942 Social Service Commission 2 Jesse B. Weatherspoon 1942–1947 Beginning of Cooperative Program funding 3 Hugh Alexander Brimm 1947–1952 Secretary–Treasurer
To the Non-Partisan Temperance Women of the Nation: A little over nine months ago, the reasons for an uncompromised, unequivocal and untrammeled National organization of temperance women were given to the public at large, followed soon after by a rallying call, not only to the members of Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance unions and ...
Editors of the WCTU's organ, The Union Signal and its former namesakes, The Woman's Temperance Union, and Our Union have included: [2] Mary Bannister Willard (January 1883 - July 1885) Mary Allen West (July 1885 - 1892) Harriet B. Kells (1891-1894) Frances Willard (1892 - February 1898) Lillian M. N. Stevens (February 1898 - April 1914)