Mark R. Shaw

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Mark R. Shaw, also known as Mark Shaw, was the Prohibition Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1946, 1952, 1958, 1969, 1962, 1966 and 1970. He was also the party's candidate for governor of that state in 1948 and again in 1956. In 1964 he served as Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States.

Mark Shaw was a minister whose father was a traveling evangelist and whose mother was a lecturer for the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), which was a major force in the temperance movement.

[edit] See also

• Temperance organizations

[edit] Sources

• Mark Revell Shaw
• Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.