Background
Eugene Wilder Chafin was born on November 1, 1852 in East Troy, Wisconsin, United States. He was the son of Samuel Evans and Betsey A. (Pollard) Chafin.
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The Master Method Of The Great Reform: Speeches Of Eugene W. Chafin ... Prohibition Candidate For President, 1908-1912
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Eugene Wilder Chafin
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended the public schools, studied law at the University of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1875, and began to practise his profession in Waukesha.
Career
He took an active interest in local affairs and served as justice of the peace, police magistrate, member of the Waukesha board of education, member of the public library board, and three times as president of the Waukesha County Agricultural Society. Early in life he became interested in temperance work and joined the Good Templars at the age of fourteen. His work within the organization was soon recognized and he was elected District Chief Templar of Waukesha County. In 1885 he became Grand Counselor and in the following year Grand Chief Templar of Wisconsin. From 1893 to 1901 he was Grand Electoral Superintendent and represented his state in the International Supreme Lodge of Good Templars. He was also interested in the Epworth League, of which he was twice elected state president. In October 1901 he moved to Chicago, where he became superintendent of the Washingtonian Home for Inebriates. His interest in politics continued unabated, and he was a candidate for Congress (1902) and for attorney-general of Illinois (1904). His law practise he gradually relinquished, and from 1904 on spent most of his time on the lecture platform, campaigning for prohibition. Within his party he had been a delegate to the Prohibition national conventions since 1884, was chairman of the Committee on the Platform in 1900, and was a member of the Prohibition National Committee from 1888 to 1896. In the Prohibition National Convention of July 1908 it seemed that William B. Palmore of Missouri had the nomination for the presidency almost within his grasp, but Chafin was put forward as a dark horse and received the nomination. He campaigned vigorously, but the result was a foregone conclusion, no Prohibition candidate having any chance of success. Four years later he was again nominated for the presidency, without opposition, but as in 1908, the Prohibition candidate received little attention, the election being for the most part a three-cornered struggle between Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson. Nevertheless the efforts of Chafin and his colleagues did much to prepare public sentiment in the United States for Prohibition. With the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Chafin turned his attention to world temperance and in the spring of 1919 went to Australia and New Zealand on a lecture tour in support of the Australian temperance organizations. He died in 1920 at his home in Long Beach, California. His writings include The Voters' Hand-Book (1876); Lives of the Presidents (1896); Lincoln: the Man of Sorrow (1908); and The Master Method of the Great Reform (1913), to which was attached a biographical sketch of the author.
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Chafin's lives of the presidents of the United States of America
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The Voter's Hand-Book: Including Biographical Sketches of the Chief Justices, Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the United States
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Lincoln: the Man of Sorrow
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The Master Method Of The Great Reform: Speeches Of Eugene W. Chafin ... Prohibition Candidate For President, 1908-1912
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Chafin's lives of the presidents of the United States of America
Politics
In politics he was originally a Republican but in 1881 he joined the Prohibition party and ran for district attorney of Waukesha County (1881), for Congress (1882), for attorney-general (1886 and 1900), and for governor (1898).
Connections
On November 24, 1881, he married Carrie A. Hunkins of Waukesha.
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Prohibition Party