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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A minor US political party organized in 1869 that advocated prohibition.
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- noun a political party in the United States; formed in 1869 to oppose the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages
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In its first national campaign, in 1872, the Prohibition Party endorsed universal suffrage, public education, and the elimination of the electoral college, and would soon take up a range of issues reaching from federal control of interstate commerce to forest conservation.
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The Prohibition Party twice put up candidates to run against him.
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The Prohibition Party twice put up candidates to run against him.
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Pinchot was among a large number of drys who considered Coolidge a wimp and a closet wet, and in 1924 he flirted with challenging the president as the candidate of the Prohibition Party.
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In 1895 the Prohibition Party recognized that “the excise tax receipt. . . is a pledge on the part of the State to defend and foster the thing taxed.”
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In its first national campaign, in 1872, the Prohibition Party endorsed universal suffrage, public education, and the elimination of the electoral college, and would soon take up a range of issues reaching from federal control of interstate commerce to forest conservation.
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But no one other than a Democrat or a Republican has won statewide office since Sidney Johnston Catts was elected governor on the Prohibition Party ticket in 1916.
Florida's Crist leaves Republican Party to run as independent in Senate race 2010
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But no one other than a Democrat or a Republican has won statewide office since Sidney Johnston Catts was elected governor on the Prohibition Party ticket in 1916.
Charlie Crist leaves Republican Party to run as independent in Fla. Senate race 2010
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But no one other than a Democrat or a Republican has won statewide office since Sidney Johnston Catts was elected governor on the Prohibition Party ticket in 1916.
Charlie Crist leaves Republican Party to run as independent in Fla. Senate race 2010
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The Prohibition Party was no better; among the many reasons for its dismal electoral record—it had never garnered more than 2.2 percent of the vote in a presidential election—was its earnest devotion to a list of diffuse and sometimes nutty causes ranging from government ownership of public utilities to judicial review of post office decisions.
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