John St. John

Infobox Governor
name= John St. John


caption=
order=8^th
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 13, 1879
term_end= January 8, 1883
lieutenant= Lyman U. Humphrey, David W. Finney
predecessor= George T. Anthony
successor= George W. Glick
birth_date= February 25, 1833
birth_place= Franklin County, Indiana
death_date= August 31, 1916
death_place= Olathe, Kansas
spouse= Mary Jane Brewer, Susan J. Parker
profession= soldier, attorney, politician
party= Republican
religion= Congregationalist (preference); later, Christian Science
footnotes=

John Pierce St. John (February 25, 1833ndash August 31, 1916) was eighth Governor of Kansas and a candidate for President of the United States.

Born in Brookville, Indiana, St. John served as lieutenant colonel of the 143rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. From 1873 he sat in the Kansas Senate, and was the Republican Governor of Kansas from 1879 to 1883. Active in the temperance movement, he successfully promoted a prohibition amendment to that state's constitution. St. John also helped create the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association during the Great Exodus of African-Americans to Kansas in 1879.

He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1884 election. He received 147,482 votes (about 1.5%) on a ticket with William Daniel. The election was won by Grover Cleveland of the Democratic Party. St. John was also surpassed by two other unsuccessful candidates:
*James Gillespie Blaine of the Republican Party.
*Benjamin Franklin Butler of the United States Greenback Party.

St. John died after suffering heat exhaustion in 1916 in Olathe, Kansas.

The city of St. John, Kansas, is named after him.

External links

*findagrave|15048714 Retrieved on 2008-02-15

ee also

*Temperance organizations