Joseph H. Choate, Jr.

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Lawyer Jopseph H. Choate, Jr. chaired the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, a group established in 1927 that promoted the repeal of prohibition. Upon repeal in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt named Choate the first head of the Federal Alcohol Control Administration (FACA).

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  • One of Choate's very famous qoutes were:

    "You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them."

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