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7 unusual facts about Prohibition party


Bidwell, Ohio

In or around 1900, Heatly changed its name to Bidwell in honor of John Bidwell, the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate in 1892.

Marie C. Brehm

Suffragette Marie Caroline Brehm (died January 21, 1926) was the first legally qualified female candidate to run for the vice-presidency of the United States, which she did in 1924 on the ticket of the Prohibition Party running with Herman P. Faris.

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National Prohibition Foundation

Its purpose is to receive and manage bequests and other donations for the benefit of the Prohibition Party.

Stanford Andress

In particular, the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Equality Party, Socialist Party, as well as the combined two competing tickets of the Prohibition Party all received a smaller number of votes.

Thomas Szewczykowski

He won election by 29 votes over Socialist former assemblyman Frederick Brockhausen, with 1496 votes against 1467 votes for Brockhausen and 28 votes for Prohibitionist H. C. Schlauer.

Woman's Christian Temperance Union Administration Building

In 1913, the WCTU teamed up with the Anti-Saloon League and the Prohibition Party to focus their efforts on legislative prohibition.


Abner Lewis

Active in the Methodist church as a lay preacher, and a prominent member of the prohibition movement, in 1870 he was the Prohibition Party's nominee for Governor.

American Prohibition Foundation

The American Prohibition Foundation is a Colorado corporation created in 2002 by a faction of the Prohibition Party headed by Earl Dodge.

Charles F. Van de Water

He won a seat to the United States House of Representatives from California's 9th congressional district in the 1920 election by defeating the Prohibition party incumbent, Charles H. Randall.

Jackson County, Kentucky

David "Stringbean" Akeman, country music star who was born and raised in Annville
Freddie Langdon
Randy Hayes (guitar player in the Keith Whitley Band)
Woody Brooks (has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
Andrew N. Johnson, Prohibition Party's 1944 nominee for vice president of the United States

John H. Hoeppel

He was an unsuccessful Prohibition candidate for election in 1946 to the Eightieth Congress, losing to future U.S. President Richard Nixon.

John H. Hoffecker

He ran for Governor in 1896 as the candidate of the Union (Addicks) Republicans and the National Prohibition Party.

W. C. Zumach

Zumach was elected to the Senate for the 6th District (6th, 7th, 9th and 10th wards of the City of Milwaukee) in 1916 to succeed Democrat George Weissleder (who was not a candidate for re-election), receiving 4,147 votes to 4,006 for Republican Charles Meising, 1,744 for Democrat Charles Jungmann, and 73 for Prohibitionist Henry W. Schmidt.


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Demorest

William Jennings Demorest (1822-1895) — political leader (Prohibition Party) and magazine publisher from New York City

J. Lyter Donaldson

Although no Republican had won that office since the height of national Republican strength in 1927, before the Great Depression, Donaldson lost the general election to Republican Simeon S. Willis, 279,144 to 270,525, with 3,239 votes going to the Prohibition Party candidate.

John Woolley

John G. Woolley (1850–1922), lawyer and public speaker; Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1900

National Prohibition Foundation

The Foundation (not to be confused with the American Prohibition Foundation) is part of the organizational structure of the Prohibition party, other components of which are the Prohibition National Committee, the Partisan Prohibition Historical Society, the Prohibitionists Caucus, the Action!, and all state and local affiliates.