Joseph H. Choate, Jr.

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Lawyer Joseph H. Choate, Jr. (1887 – 1968) 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 quotes was "You cannot live without lawyers, and certainly you cannot die without them."

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