John Brown Hammond
American activist
About John Brown Hammond
Lived 1856 – 1938 (aged 81–82).
As a young man, John Brown, Hammond (August 29, 1856 – July 20, 1940) believed in and used violent action to try to bring about alcohol prohibition in the United States. However, over time, he came to pursue non-violent actions through the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and other temperance groups.
Although prohibition was repealed in 1933, Hammond promoted a return to it for the rest of his life. Several months before his death in a nursing home he was working to organize "The Eighteenth Amendment Rescue Association" and believed that prohibition would eventually be re-imposed.
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Who was John Brown Hammond?
American activist
When was John Brown Hammond born?
John Brown Hammond was born on 29 August 1856.
When did John Brown Hammond die?
John Brown Hammond died in 1938.
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