-Frances Willlard was inspired by a Father who was a Washingtonian which led her to join a women’s crusade. She was focused on protecting the “home and family”.
-Billy Sunday spent most of his baseball career drinking, but became a sermonizer in the fight against alcohol. He changed when he saw a church and remembered the times when he was young and not drinking. Sunday was the man who held the mock funeral for John Barleycorn.
-Carry Nation was a destroyer. She destroyed many saloons, believing it was her duty.
-Dr. Ben Rush was a prominent physician who served in the American Revolution. He took a stand against the popular notion that unlimited alcohol use was good for illnesses and necessary for good health.
-James Oglethorpe was intent on creating a community that practiced temperance. His temperance villiage in Georgia ended up smuggling alcohol. His temperance community was forced defeat after ignoring officials and Oglethorpe himself.
-John Barleycorn symbolized the “evils of alcohol” and “died” on the night that the Eighteenth Amendment was in effect.
-Wayne Wheeler was involved with the Anti-Saloon League. He believed that after a year of the Eighteenth Amendment, the federal funds upholding law will be cut.
-John F. Kramer was the first Prohibition Commissioner.
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