- Eugene W. Chafin
Eugene Wilder Chafin (
November 1 ,1852 –November 30 ,1920 ) was anUnited States politician from the Prohibition Party. Chafin was born inEast Troy, Wisconsin and worked as alawyer atWaukesha, Wisconsin from 1876 to 1900. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Congress (Wisconsin) in 1882 and (Chicago) in 1902, for Attorney-General of Wisconsin in 1886 and 1900, for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898, and for Attorney-General ofIllinois in 1904. In 1908 he was appointed to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and in the following year moved toArizona . While in Arizona he ran for that state's U.S. Senate Seat.He was the Prohibition Party candidate for
President of the United States in the 1908 election and 1912 election receiving 253,840 and 207,972 votes, respectively, approximately 1.5% each time.Books by E. W. Chafin
* "Voters' Handbook", (1876)
* "Lives of the Presidents", (1896)
* "Lincoln, the Man of Sorrow", (1908)
* "Washington as a Statesman", (1909)ee also
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Temperance movement
*Temperance organizations
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