Eugene W. Chafin

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Eugene Wilder Chafin (November 1, 1852 – November 30, 1920) was an United States politician from the Prohibition Party. Chafin was born in East Troy, Wisconsin and worked as a lawyer at Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1876 to 1900. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Congress (Wisconsin) in 1882 and (Chicago) in 1902, for Attorney-General of Wisconsin in 1886 and 1900, for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898, and for Attorney-General of Illinois in 1904. In 1908 he was appointed to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and in the following year moved to Arizona. While in Arizona he ran for that state's U.S. Senate Seat.

He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States in the 1908 election and 1912 election receiving 253,840 and 207,972 votes, respectively, approximately 1.5% each time.

This is a political postcard created to help promote the candidacy of Eugene Chafin. He is on the left facing his running mate Aaron Watkins. Both men headed their party's ticket in the 1908 and 1912 campaigns.

[edit] Books by E. W. Chafin

• Voters' Handbook, (1876)
• Lives of the Presidents, (1896)
• Lincoln, the Man of Sorrow, (1908)
• Washington as a Statesman, (1909)

[edit] See also

• Temperance movement
• Temperance organizations