{{Short description|American politician (1852–1920)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Eugene W. Chafin | image = Eugene Chafin photo.jpg | caption = | birth_name = Eugene Wilder Chafin | birth_date = {{birth date|1852|11|01}} | birth_place = Mukwonago/East Troy, Wisconsin, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1920|11|30|1852|11|01}} | death_place = Long Beach, California, U.S. | resting_place = | party = Prohibition (1881–1920) | other_party = Republican (before 1881) | father = Samuel Evans Chafin | mother = Betsy Almira Pollard | spouse = Carrie Arvilla Hunkins | children = 2 | relatives = Robert Hastings Hunkins (father-in-law) <br> Benjamin Hunkins (brother-in-law) <br> Amos Pollard (uncle)<ref name="chafin life 2" /> | education = University of Wisconsin–Madison (LL.B.) | signature = Eugene W. Chafin signature.png }}
'''Eugene Wilder Chafin''' (November 1, 1852 – November 30, 1920) was an American politician and writer who served as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate during the 1908 and 1912 presidential elections. He was active in local politics in Wisconsin, statewide elections in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Arizona, and campaigned throughout the United States and the world in favor of the prohibition of alcohol.
After serving as a delegate to multiple Prohibition national conventions he rose to serving on the national committee and then received the presidential nomination twice, but declined to seek the nomination again for the 1916 presidential election.
==Early life== thumb|The program for a Chautauqua movement lecture that featured Chafin
Eugene Wilder Chafin was born on November 1, 1852, to Samuel Evans Chafin and Betsy Almira Pollard, on his family's farm in between East Troy and Mukwonago, Wisconsin.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://prohibitionists.org/History/votes/Eugene-w-Chafin_bio.html |title=Chafin was born ... where? |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818221046/http://prohibitionists.org/History/votes/Eugene-w-Chafin_bio.html |archive-date=August 18, 2019}}</ref> Chafin attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison and graduated on June 17, 1875, with a law degree and during his education shared a room with future Governor, Senator, and presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette.<ref name="chafin life 2" /> From 1875 to 1901 he practiced law in Waukesha, Wisconsin. On November 24, 1881, he married Carrie Arvila Hunkins and later had two children with her, one that died after birth on February 22, 1884, and Desdemona Eleanor on March 17, 1893.<ref name="chafin life 2" />
On October 1, 1901, he moved to Chicago to become the superintendent of the city's Washingtonian home, which housed 1,500 alcoholics, and served in that position until 1904. From 1904 to 1908 he served as a lecturer as part of the Chautauqua movement.<ref name="chafin life 2" /><ref name="chafin life">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422844/the-long-beach-telegram-and-the-long/ |title=Eugene Wilder Chafin, Twice Prohibition Candidate For U.S. President, Dies In This City |date=November 30, 1920 |work=The Daily Telegram |publication-place=Long Beach, California |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200309215318/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422844/the-long-beach-telegram-and-the-long/ |archive-date=March 9, 2020 |page=9 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1909, he was admitted to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States after being presented by Senator La Follette and with Carrie Nation in attendance.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46501173/the-marlow-review/ |title=Eugene Chafin Admitted |date=December 24, 1909 |work=The Marlow Review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311040558/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46501173/the-marlow-review/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Career== ===Local politics===
In 1881, he left the Republican Party and joined the Prohibition Party and in the same year ran for District Attorney in Waukesha county. From 1884 to 1920, he served as a delegate to the Prohibition national conventions, from 1888 to 1896 he served as a national committeeman from Wisconsin and again for Arizona and California from 1912 to 1920, at the 1884 convention he served as the Sergeant-at-Arms and gave one of the seconding speechings for John St. John, and in 1900 he served on the platform committee.<ref name="chafin life 2">{{Cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MULiAAAAMAAJ&q=Eugene+Wilder+Chafin&pg=PA5 |title=The Master Method of the Great Reform |last=Chafin |first=Eugene |date=January 1, 1913 |publisher=Lincoln Temperance Press |page=5 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="chafin life 3">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfhgbsZk1nQC&q=prohibition+party+history&pg=PA45 |title=Others: Third Parties During the Populist Period |last=Richardson |first=Darcy |date=January 1, 2007 |page=401 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9780595443048 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
In 1877, he was elected as the Justice of the Peace in Waukesha and served until 1883 and then served as Police Justice until 1885. He later served on the school and public library board. Chafin ran for the House of Representatives in Wisconsin in 1882 and in Illinois in 1902. In 1886 and 1900, he ran for attorney general in Wisconsin and later ran for attorney general in Illinois in 1904. In 1898, he ran for Governor of Wisconsin.<ref name="chafin life 2" />
===Presidential=== ====1908====
On July 16, 1908, Chafin was nominated by A. G. Wolfenbarger and Chafin won the Prohibition presidential nomination on the third ballot with 636 delegates voting for him against William B. Palmore, Daniel R. Sheen, Alfred L. Manierre, Will W. Tracy, Frederick F. Wheeler, James B. Cranfill, and Oliver W. Stewart. The vice presidential nomination was offered to Palmore due to him receiving the second highest amount of support, but he declined and the position was instead given to Aaron S. Watkins.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46426421/the-kansas-city-kansas-globe/ |title="Dry" Ticket Is Named |date=July 17, 1908 |work=The Kansas City Kansas Globe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200309230330/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46426421/the-kansas-city-kansas-globe/ |archive-date=March 9, 2020 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> While running for president he was also simultaneously running for the Prohibition gubernatorial nomination in Illinois, but was defeated in the primary by Daniel R. Sheen.
In August, he was swimming at the YMCA in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he almost drowned, but was rescued by three people.<ref name="chafin life 3" /> On August 14, 1908, he was giving a speech in Springfield, Illinois, when a lynch mob started a race riot in an attempt to kill three black prisoners and while he was taking his handkerchief out from his pocket a member of the mob believed that he was pulling a gun out and threw a brick at him.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46426003/pittsburgh-daily-post/ |title=One Man Killed; Other Injured; 5,000 in Streets |date=August 15, 1908 |work=The Pittsburgh Post |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310144127/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46426003/pittsburgh-daily-post/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the general election he received 254,087 votes for 1.71% of the total popular vote.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1908&off=0&elect=0&f=0 |title=1908 Presidential General Election Results}}</ref>
====1912====
Chafin started his second presidential campaign on January 5, 1912, in Tucson, Arizona, and then traveled east towards Atlantic City, New Jersey, where on July 12, 1912, he won the Prohibition presidential nomination on the first ballot with 594 delegates after having his name presented by F. J. Sibley and Watkins was selected as his vice president again after two ballots.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46431241/the-pomona-daily-review/ |title=Chafin Named For President By Prohibitionists |date=July 13, 1912 |work=The Pomona Daily Review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200310002325/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46431241/the-pomona-daily-review/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> After winning the nomination he traveled towards the western United States and campaigned in all of the states along the Pacific Coast before the general election. During the campaign he traveled a total of 36,300 miles through thirty states and received 208,156 votes for 1.38% of the popular vote in the general election.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46431158/arizona-daily-star/ |title=This Record Will Stand Many Years |date=December 29, 1912 |work=Arizona Daily Star |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310144011/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46431158/arizona-daily-star/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
====1916====
In December 1915, he stated that he would not seek the Prohibition presidential nomination again for the 1916 presidential election and that he believed that Representative Richmond P. Hobson would receive the nomination. He also gave his support to Henry Ford's Peace Ship and that he would put forward a vote to add abolishing the War and Navy Departments and establishing a Department of Peace at the 1916 National Prohibition Convention.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46540966/the-des-moines-register/ |title=Chafin Dopes Out Politics Of 1916 |date=December 12, 1915 |work=The Des Moines Register |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311231712/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46540966/the-des-moines-register/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
Chafin attempted to draft Henry Ford for the Prohibition presidential nomination, but he made no attempt.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544617/the-long-beach-telegram-and-the-long/ |title=Urges Ford For "Dry" Ticket |date=July 8, 1916 |work=The Daily Telegram |publication-place=Long Beach, California |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200312001753/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544617/the-long-beach-telegram-and-the-long/ |archive-date=March 12, 2020 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> At the national convention he put forward former New York Governor William Sulzer for the presidential nomination, but he was defeated by former Indiana Governor Frank Hanly with 440 delegates to 188 delegates on July 21, 1916.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=59534 |title=US President - PRB Convention 1916 |date=September 27, 2009}}</ref> An attempt was made to make Hanly's nomination unanimous, but it failed after Chafin objected.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544289/the-journal-and-tribune/ |title=Hanly And Landrith |date=July 22, 1916 |work=The Journal and Tribune |publication-place=Knoxville, Tennessee |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200312001600/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544289/the-journal-and-tribune/ |archive-date=March 12, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He also objected and stopped efforts to rename the party to either the Progressive, American, or National party and criticized Virgil G. Hinshaw for writing to John M. Parker in an attempt to fuse the Prohibition and Progressive parties.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544851/the-capital-journal/ |title=Prohibitionists Refuse To Fuse |date=July 17, 1916 |work=The Daily Capital Journal |publication-place=Salem, Oregon |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200312002119/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46544851/the-capital-journal/ |archive-date=March 12, 2020 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In the general election, Hanly and Ira Landrith received 221,302 votes for 1.19% of the popular vote.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1916&off=0&elect=0&f=0 |title=1916 Presidential General Election Results}}</ref>
==Later life==
In 1908, Chafin was appointed to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and in October 1909, he and his family moved to Tucson in the Arizona Territory.<ref name="chafin life 2" /> Following Arizona's admission into the United States as a state he ran in the House special election and received 0.41% in fourth place.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46457553/the-coconino-sun/ |title=Representative in Congress |date=December 1, 1911 |work=The Coconino Sun |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310154003/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46457553/the-coconino-sun/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=12 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
In January 1913, he started a campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to fundraise $1,000,000 for the Prohibition party to use during the 1916 elections and later participated in a fundraising event in November across Ohio to raise $10,000 for the party.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539164/the-post-crescent/ |title=Defends Milwaukee |date=January 24, 1913 |work=Appleton Evening Crescent |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311223644/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539164/the-post-crescent/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539217/the-akron-beacon-journal/ |title=Prohibitionists Start Campaign To Cover State |date=November 18, 1913 |work=The Akron Beacon Journal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311223649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539217/the-akron-beacon-journal/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
On January 29, 1914, he announced that he would run in Arizona's Senate election and received 15.05% in the general election and from 1914 to 1915 gave lectures as part of the Flying Squadron of America.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46454785/arizona-republic/ |title=Chafin Candidate For U.S. Senator |date=January 30, 1914 |work=Arizona Republican |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310144545/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46454785/arizona-republic/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46454568/the-joliet-news/ |title=Eugene W. Chafin of Flying Squadron was Former Pupil of C. L. Powers, of News Staff |date=November 19, 1914 |work=The Joliet News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310143929/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46454568/the-joliet-news/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Chafin also campaigned in favor of a California ballot proposition to prohibit alcohol in 1914 and during it stated that women who voted against it deserved to be beaten by their husbands.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46455036/the-los-angeles-times/ |title=Eugene Chafin Is A Radical |date=February 19, 1914 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200310145136/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46455036/the-los-angeles-times/ |archive-date=March 10, 2020 |page=16 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
On January 6, 1919, Chafin and his family boarded the S.S. ''Sonoma'' to travel to Australia to help the Australian prohibition movement.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46499602/long-beach-press/ |title=Chafin Starts Prohibition Crusade In Australia |date=March 28, 1919 |work=Long Beach Press |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311033134/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46499602/long-beach-press/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The Eighteenth Amendment banning alcohol was ratified while he was traveling on January 16, 1919, and he was interviewed after disembarking in Australia.<ref name="chafin life" />
On November 20, 1920, Chafin was lighting his gas heater at his home in Long Beach, California, in the Los Angeles area, and his clothing caught fire.<ref name="chafin life" /> He suffered burns and was initially saved by Henry Murray who wrapped him in quilts, but he died from his injuries on November 30.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422287/the-sacramento-star/ |title=Eugene Chafin Dies In L.A. |date=November 30, 1920 |work=The Sacramento Star |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200309214134/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422287/the-sacramento-star/ |archive-date=March 9, 2020 |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422055/pratt-daily-tribune/ |title=Eugene Chafin Prohi Leader Dies Suddenly |date=November 30, 1920 |work=Pratt Daily Tribune |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200309214139/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46422055/pratt-daily-tribune/ |archive-date=March 9, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> In 1921, his cremated remains were buried in Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and the National Prohibition Committee had a memorial hour for Chafin at its November 1921 session.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46500395/the-capital-times/ |title=Eugene Chafin Burial At Waukesha Monday |date=July 27, 1921 |work=The Capital Times |publication-place=Madison, Wisconsin |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311034430/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46500395/the-capital-times/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46500547/the-chanute-daily-tribune/ |title=Prohibition Party Will Make Plans |date=November 25, 1921 |work=The Chanute Daily Tribune |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311034828/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46500547/the-chanute-daily-tribune/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |page=5 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Electoral history==
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{{Election box begin|title = 1882 Wisconsin Second Congressional District election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=304485 |title=WI District 2 1882 |date=December 22, 2014 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303210619/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=304485 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Daniel H. Sumner |votes = 10,671 |percentage = 50.40% |change = +3.78% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = John Samuel Rowell |votes = 8,870 |percentage = 41.89% |change = -10.08% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 1,006 |percentage = 4.75% |change = +4.75% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Greenback Party |candidate = Lorenzo Merrill |votes = 627 |percentage = 2.96% |change = +1.55% }} {{Election box total |votes = 21,174 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change|title = 1898 Wisconsin gubernatorial election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262309 |title=WI Governor 1898 |date=July 25, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404084312/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=262309 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Edward Scofield (incumbent) |votes = 173,137 |percentage = 52.56% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Hiram Wilson Sawyer |votes = 135,353 |percentage = 41.09% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = People's Party (United States) |candidate = Albinus A. Worsley |votes = 8,518 |percentage = 2.59% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 8,078 |percentage = 2.45% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Social Democratic Party of America |candidate = Howard Tuttle |votes = 2,544 |percentage = 0.77% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Socialist Labor Party of America |candidate = Henry Riese |votes = 1,473 |percentage = 0.45% }} {{Election box write-in with party link no change |votes = 327 |percentage = 0.10% }} {{Election box total no change |votes = 329,430 |percentage = 100.00% }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1902 Illinois Sixth Congressional District election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=398199 |title=IL District 6 1902 |date=January 28, 2018 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404020847/http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=398199 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = William Lorimer |votes = 16,540 |percentage = 49.67% |change = +0.20% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Allan C. Durborow Jr. |votes = 15,555 |percentage = 46.72% |change = +1.59% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Party of America |candidate = H. P. Kuesch |votes = 667 |percentage = 2.00% |change = +2.00% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 536 |percentage = 1.61% |change = +1.06% }} {{Election box total |votes = 33,298 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change|title = 1908 Prohibition presidential first ballot<ref name="1908 ballot">{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=379087 |title=US President - PRB Convention |date=January 16, 2011}}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = William B. Palmore |votes = 273 |percentage = 26.63% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 195 |percentage = 19.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Alfred L. Manierre |votes = 159 |percentage = 15.51% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Daniel R. Sheen |votes = 124 |percentage = 12.10% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Will W. Tracy |votes = 105 |percentage = 10.24% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Frederick F. Wheeler |votes = 72 |percentage = 7.02% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Oliver W. Stewart |votes = 61 |percentage = 5.95% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = James B. Cranfill |votes = 28 |percentage = 2.73% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = George R. Stewart |votes = 7 |percentage = 0.68% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Charles Scanlon |votes = 1 |percentage = 0.10% }} {{Election box total no change |votes = 1,025 |percentage = 100.00% }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1908 Prohibition presidential second ballot<ref name="1908 ballot" />}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = William B. Palmore |votes = 418 |percentage = 32.84% |change = +6.21% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 376 |percentage = 29.54% |change = +10.52% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Daniel R. Sheen |votes = 157 |percentage = 12.33% |change = +0.23% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Alfred L. Manierre |votes = 121 |percentage = 9.51% |change = -6.00% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Will W. Tracy |votes = 81 |percentage = 6.36% |change = -3.88% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Frederick F. Wheeler |votes = 73 |percentage = 5.73% |change = -1.29% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Oliver W. Stewart |votes = 47 |percentage = 3.69% |change = -2.26% }} {{Election box total |votes = 1,273 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1908 Prohibition presidential third ballot<ref name="1908 ballot" />}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 636 |percentage = 59.22% |change = +29.68% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = William B. Palmore |votes = 415 |percentage = 38.64% |change = +5.80% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Daniel R. Sheen |votes = 12 |percentage = 1.12% |change = -11.21% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Will W. Tracy |votes = 7 |percentage = 0.65% |change = -5.71% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Alfred L. Manierre |votes = 4 |percentage = 0.37% |change = -9.14% }} {{Election box total |votes = 1,074 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1908 Prohibition presidential fourth ballot<ref name="1908 ballot" />}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 1,087 |percentage = 100.00% |change = +40.78% }} {{Election box total |votes = 1,087 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change|title = 1908 Illinois gubernatorial Prohibition primary<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=385326 |title=IL Governor-PRB Primary |date=July 27, 2019}}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Daniel R. Sheen |votes = 3,604 |percentage = 53.58% }} {{Election box candidate with party link no change |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 3,123 |percentage = 46.43% }} {{Election box total no change |votes = 6,727 |percentage = 100.00% }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1908 United States Presidential election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1908&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 |title=US Presidential 1908}}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = William Howard Taft |votes = 7,678,174 |percentage = 43.04% |change = -4.85% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = William Jennings Bryan |votes = 6,409,007 |percentage = 43.04% |change = +5.45% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Party of America |candidate = Eugene V. Debs |votes = 420,856 |percentage = 2.83% |change = -0.15% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 254,081 |percentage = 1.71% |change = -0.21% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Independence Party (United States) |candidate = Thomas L. Hisgen |votes = 82,580 |percentage = 0.55% |change = +0.55% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = People's Party (United States) |candidate = Thomas E. Watson |votes = 28,862 |percentage = 0.19% |change = -0.65% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Labor Party of America |candidate = August Gillhaus |votes = 14,031 |percentage = 0.09% |change = -0.16% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Davidson Faction |votes = 987 |percentage = 0.01% |change = +0.01% }} {{Election box candidate |party = United Christian |candidate = Daniel Turney |votes = 463 |percentage = 0.00% |change = +0.00% }} {{Election box write-in with party link |votes = 69 |percentage = 0.00% |change = -0.00% }} {{Election box total |votes = 15,048,834 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1912 United States Presidential election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1912&minper=0&f=0&off=0&elect=0 |title=US Presidential 1912}}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Woodrow Wilson |votes = 6,296,284 |percentage = 41.84% |change = -1.20% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Progressive Party (United States, 1912) |candidate = Theodore Roosevelt |votes = 4,122,721 |percentage = 27.40% |change = +27.40% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = William Howard Taft (incumbent) |votes = 3,486,242 |percentage = 23.17% |change = -28.40% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Party of America |candidate = Eugene V. Debs |votes = 901,551 |percentage = 5.99% |change = +3.16% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Prohibition Party |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 208,156 |percentage = 1.38% |change = -0.33% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Labor Party of America |candidate = Arthur E. Reimer |votes = 29,324 |percentage = 0.19% |change = +0.10% }} {{Election box write-in with party link |votes = 4,556 |percentage = 0.03% |change = +0.03% }} {{Election box total |votes = 15,048,834 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin|title = 1914 Arizona Senate election<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3304 |title=AZ US Senate |date=August 4, 2003 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130110559/https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=3304 |archive-date=January 30, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>}} {{Election box winning candidate with party link |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Marcus A. Smith (incumbent) |votes = 25,800 |percentage = 53.23% |change = +2.88% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = Don Lorenzo Hubbell |votes = 9,183 |percentage = 18.95% |change = -24.90% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Independent (politician) |candidate = Eugene W. Chafin |votes = 7,293 |percentage = 15.05% |change = +15.05% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Socialist Party of America |candidate = Bert Davis |votes = 3,582 |percentage = 7.39% |change = +7.39% }} {{Election box candidate with party link |party = Progressive Party (United States, 1912) |candidate = J. Bernard Nelson |votes = 2,608 |percentage = 5.38% |change = +5.38% }} {{Election box total |votes = 16,617 |percentage = 100.00% |change = }} {{Election box end}}
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==Bibliography== *''Voters' Handbook'', (1876) *''Lives of the Presidents'', (1896) *''Lincoln, the Man of Sorrow'', (1908) *''Washington as a Statesman'', (1909) *''The Master Method of the Great Reform'', (1913)
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==External links== *{{Find a Grave|87776918}}
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