| Adolphus Busch (1839-1913) * An immigrant from the Rhineland * Adolphus Busch entered the brewery supply business in 1857, and became the first brewer to succeed at bottling beer for shipment. * Busch was the most powerful brewer of his day, owning railroads, ice factories and bottling plants. * As the Anti-Saloon League steadily gained ground, brewers look to Bush for leadership in the fight against Prohibition. | | James Cannon, Jr. (1864-1944) * A Virginia political boss and Methodist bishop, James Cannon, Jr. was instrumental in the downfall of Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election. * Cannon concentrated his fire on the South, flooding the region with tracts and pamphlets falsely charging that Smith was a drunk * Dismissing his most ardent supporters as the "kind of dirty people that you find today on the sidewalks of New York." (Later smith was charged with gambling in fraudulent stocks, hoarding flour during the Great War, and having had not one, but two mistresses while his first wife still lived.) | | Alphonse Capone (1899-1947) * Originally the chief enforcer for the boss of Chicago crime, Johnny Torrio, * Al Capone inherited all of Torrio's Chicago operations after Torrio's attempted murder and subsequent move to NY. * By 1931, Al Capone was at the top of his game. He had no real rivals among Chicago's mobsters and he continued to expand his empire in case Prohibition was repealed. * Most gangsters did their best to stay out of sight. Al Capone held press conferences at which he presented himself as what he called a "public benefactor" who offered Chicago citizens the "light pleasures" they wanted. | | Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty(1860-1941) * Harry Daugherty preferred dispensing patronage to practicing law. * Daugherty's "Ohio Gang," the circle of hard-drinking old friends he rewarded with federal jobs, quickly came to see the enforcement of Prohibition as a potential profit centre – selling bootleggers pardons, paroles, and protection from arrest and prosecution. |

| Neal Dow (1804–1897)Nicknamed the "Napoleon of Temperance" and the "Father of Prohibition," Neal Dow was the wealthy mayor of Portland, Maine. In 1851 he gathered thousands of signatures on a petition demanding the state legislature enact a law to ban the sale of alcohol. In 1855 Dow personally led raids on liquor sellers and when an angry crowd of 3,000 men – most of them Irish immigrants who saw nothing wrong with alcohol – turned out to protest his actions Dow called out the state militia and ordered them to fire. One man was killed in the conflict and seven men were wounded. | | Mary Hanchett Hunt (1830-1906) * Frances Willard placed Mary Hanchett Hunt in charge of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's "Department of Scientific Temperance Instruction," meant to train generations of boys and girls dedicated to eradicating alcohol. * Hunt lobbied state legislatures and Congress to require anti-alcohol indoctrination in schools forced textbook publishers to conform to the WCTU’s message. * She also directed women from chapters all over the country to pressure local school boards for temperance classes three times a week. |