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William (Billy) Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 [1] – November 6, 1935) was an American evangelist and professional baseball outfielder.He played for eight seasons in the National League before becoming the most influential American preacher during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Today’s Free Press Flashback recounts an extended visit to Detroit by Billy Sunday, America’s best-known evangelist of the World War I era. The fire-breathing preacher who captivated Detroit ...
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
Upon hearing of his nomination however Bryan declined the gesture, not wishing to remain singularly focused on the prohibition question or to sever his ties with the Democratic Party entirely. [16] Some had considered Billy Sunday a possible substitute but Sunday was "satisfied" with Republican nominee Warren Harding, while others thought about ...
The term "Drys" referred to those who were in favor of prohibition, who were generally well-financed and organized, and included figures such as Billy Sunday, organized civic groups, some religious denominations, and many leaders of the Progressive movement which also supported social causes such as women's suffrage. Supporters of prohibition ...
Billy Sunday (1862–1935), American evangelist and proponent of Prohibition; William Irvine (1863–1947), Scottish evangelist, founder of the Cooneyites and Two by Twos sects; G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945), British evangelist and pastor of Westminster Chapel; Edward Cooney (1867–1960), evangelist and early leader of the Cooneyites and Go ...
Gene C. Amondson (October 15, 1943 – July 20, 2009) was a painter, woodcarver, Christian minister and prohibition activist, who was the 2004 US presidential nominee for one faction of the Prohibition Party and the nominee of the unified party in 2008.
The grisly triple murder of a mother, father and son found slain in a bathtub in 1972 has been solved 50 years later, thanks to information from a Georgia inmate, the Watauga County Sheriff’s ...