Enoch A. Holtwick

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Enoch Arden Holtwick, (1881–1972) was an American 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 was born in Greenville, Illinois.^[1]. After his political candidacies, he moved to California and became president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College. He was earlier associated with Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, where he is memorialized by the Enoch A. Holtwick Literary Award and Enoch A. Holtwick Hall, a residence building.

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• The Political Graveyard: Enoch A. Holtwick
• Greenville College

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• Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.

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