Prohibition Party Candidates
In the November election of 2008, most voters will mark their ballots without much regard for candidates outside the Republican and Democratic parties. A century or more ...
Prohibition Party
What We Found
Wolfenbarger, Andrew G.
Andrew G. Wolfenbarger (1856-1923), a well-known Lincoln attorney, was for many years a state and national prohibition leader. The Nebraska State Journal of October 9, ...
Woodbey for Regent!
At the Nebraska Prohibition Party's statewide convention in 1895, held in July in Lincoln, C. E. Bentley (who was to be a Prohibition candidate for president in 1896) ...
Hardy, Harvey Wesley
Harvey Wesley Hardy (1825-1913), a pioneer Nebraska merchant, civic leader, and temperance advocate, was born at Perry, New York, in 1825. For the first forty years of ...
Campaigning in 1897
Nebraska's statewide political conventions in 1897 were complex and colorful. The traditional Republican and Democratic parties were each divided into gold and silver ...
Bentley for President, 1896
In this centennial year of William Jennings Bryan's first campaign for the presidency, his career has been reviewed in an exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum, in ...
Bryan for President in 1920?
Lincoln has seldom been the site of a national political convention, but in July 1920 it hosted such a meeting. "Dry Convention Comes to Order 'to Bury Booze,'" reported ...
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