Enoch A. Holtwick

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Enoch Arden Holtwick was an educator with a long record of actively supporting the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Illinois State Treasurer in 1936; its candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1950; its candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1952; and its candidate for president in 1956.

Holtwick later moved to California and became president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College. He was earlier associated with Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, where is memorialized by the Enoch A. Holtwick Literary Award and Enoch A. Holtwick Hall, a residence building.

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Preceded by
Stuart Hamblen
Prohibition Party Presidential candidate
1956 (lost)
Succeeded by
Rutherford Decker
Preceded by
Dale H. Learn
Prohibition Party Vice Presidential candidate
1952 (lost)
Succeeded by
Edwin M. Cooper