John Brown Hammond

As a young man, John Brown, Hammond (August 29, 1856 – July 20, 1940)[1] believed in and used violent action to try to bring about alcohol prohibition in the United States. However, over time, he came to pursue non-violent actions through the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other temperance groups.

Although prohibition was repealed in 1933, Hammond promoted a return to it for the rest of his life. Several months before his death in a nursing home he was working to organize "The Eighteenth Amendment Rescue Association" and believed that prohibition would eventually be re-imposed.

References

"John Brown Hammond." The Annals of Iowa 22 (1940), 510-510. Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol22/iss6/8

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[1] "John Brown Hammond." The Annals of Iowa 22 (1940), 510-510. Available at: http://ir.uiowa.edu/annals-of-iowa/vol22/iss6/8