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[[File:Woolley-John-G-1898.tif|thumb|right|280px|John G. Woolley as he appeared in 1898.]]
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{{About|the American [[Prohibitionist]]|other people named John Woolley or Wooley|John Woolley (disambiguation){{!}}John Woolley}}
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'''John Granville Woolley''' (February 15, 1850 - August 13, 1922), a lawyer and public speaker, was the [[Prohibition Party]]'s candidate for [[President of the United States]] in the [[United States presidential election, 1900|election of 1900]].
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'''John Granville Woolley''' (February 15, 1850 – August 13, 1922) was an American politician, lawyer, and public speaker who served as the [[Prohibition Party]]'s presidential candidate in [[1900 United States presidential election|1900]].


==Biography==
==Biography==
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Woolley was born in [[Collinsville, Ohio]], on February 15, 1850, and graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] in 1871, later gaining admission to the Illinois bar. He was elected City Attorney in [[Paris, Illinois]], in 1875 and became Prosecuting Attorney of [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota, in 1881. Two years after entering private practice in New York in 1886, Woolley, a reformed [[alcoholic]], began a career of public speaking around the country.<ref name="convention" /><ref name=nyt1>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9804EFD6123AE733A25757C2A9679D946597D6CF Prohibition Treasury Looted, Says Woolley], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 24, 1904, page 2</ref><ref name=battle1900>[http://books.google.com/books?id=p-zgaOco6ewC&pg=PA523&lpg=PA523&dq=Prohibition+Chicago+Lever+New+Voice&source=bl&ots=t2S7YOWxv0&sig=QmTzyViKoIIyEUEuf050ylF3ekA&hl=en&ei=YCpETJOUIoG88ga3_LijDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CC0Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Prohibition%20Chicago%20Lever%20New%20Voice&f=false ''The Battle of 1900: An Official Hand-Book for Every American Citizen''], by L. White Busby, Willis J. Abbott, Oliver W. Stewart ("Prohibition Issues") and Dr. Howard S. Taylor, Monarch Books (Chicago and Philadelphia), 1900, page 523</ref><ref name=nyt2>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=950CEFDA1339EF3ABC4C52DFBE668389639EDE John G Woolley Dies; Ran as Prohibitionist], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 22, 1922, page 8 (reprinting an August 13 [[Associated Press]] story from Granada)</ref><ref name=ae>{{Cite Americana|Woolley, John Granville}}</ref>


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John Granville Woolley was born in [[Collinsville, Ohio]], on February 15, 1850, to Edwin C. Woolley and Elizabeth Hunter Woolley. In 1871, he graduated from [[Ohio Wesleyan University]] and the [[University of Michigan]] in 1873 and later gained admission to the Illinois bar.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40649595/chicago_tribune/ |title=John G. Woolley |date=14 August 1922 |work=Chicago Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216142243/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40649595/chicago_tribune/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=7 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> He was elected City Attorney in [[Paris, Illinois]], in 1875 and became Prosecuting Attorney of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1881. Two years after entering private practice in New York in 1886, Woolley, a reformed alcoholic, began a career of public speaking around the country.<ref name="convention" /><ref name=nyt1>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/11/24/101349814.pdf Prohibition Treasury Looted, Says Woolley], ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 24, 1904, page 2</ref><ref name=battle1900>[https://books.google.com/books?id=p-zgaOco6ewC&dq=Prohibition+Chicago+Lever+New+Voice&pg=PA523 ''The Battle of 1900: An Official Hand-Book for Every American Citizen''], by L. White Busby, Willis J. Abbott, Oliver W. Stewart ("Prohibition Issues") and Dr. Howard S. Taylor, Monarch Books (Chicago and Philadelphia), 1900, page 523</ref><ref name=nyt2>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/08/14/99055899.pdf John G Woolley Dies; Ran as Prohibitionist], ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 22, 1922, page 8 (reprinting an August 13 [[Associated Press]] story from Granada)</ref><ref name=ae>{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Woolley, John Granville}}</ref> On January 31, 1888, he joined the Prohibition Party in New York City and later that year [[Clinton B. Fisk]] offered him a job to practice corporate law, but he rejected the offer.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650564/the_ottawa_guardian/ |title=Mr. John G. Woolley Biography Extracts |date=7 March 1896 |work=The Ottawa Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216145407/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650564/the_ottawa_guardian/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
Woolley was nominated for President of the United States, together with [[Henry B. Metcalf]] of Rhode Island for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]], at the Prohibition Party's [[United States presidential nominating convention|national convention]] in [[Chicago]] on June 27–28, 1900. (Woolley had declined a previous nomination for President in 1896.) Woolley received the third-highest number of popular votes on November 6, 1900, after [[William McKinley]] and [[William Jennings Bryan]] (over 209,000 or 1.5% of the national total), but not a single vote of the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] in December.<ref>Tim Taylor, ''The Book of Presidents'', Arno Press (New York), 1972, ISBN 0-405-22226-2, page 287</ref><ref>[[Richard B. Morris]], ''Encyclopedia of American History'', Harper & Row (New York), 1961, page 266</ref><ref name="convention">[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9906E4DF1039E733A2575AC2A9609C946197D6CF Prohibition Ticket: Woolley and Metcalf; National Convention at Chicago Makes Its Nominations], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 29, 1900, page 7</ref>


During the [[1896 United States presidential election|1896 presidential election]] there were attempts to draft him for the Prohibition presidential nomination, but he chose not to run.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650261/ironwood_newsrecord/ |title=Mr. John G. Woolley |date=7 March 1896 |work=Ironwood News-Record |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216144459/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650261/ironwood_newsrecord/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=14 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> During the [[1900 United States presidential election|1900 presidential election]] he ran for the Prohibition Party's presidential nomination and with the support of [[Hale Johnson]], the party's 1896 vice presidential nominee who withdrew shortly before balloting, was able to narrowly defeat [[Silas C. Swallow]] for the nomination with 380 delegates to 320 on June 28, 1900.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650050/sioux_city_journal/ |title=Woolley For President |date=29 June 1900 |work=Sioux City Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216143830/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650050/sioux_city_journal/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Woolley, along with [[Henry B. Metcalf]], placed third in the popular vote with over 209,000 votes.<ref name="convention">[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/06/29/101060335.pdf Prohibition Ticket: Woolley and Metcalf; National Convention at Chicago Makes Its Nominations], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 29, 1900, page 7</ref><ref>Tim Taylor, ''The Book of Presidents'', Arno Press (New York), 1972, {{ISBN|0-405-22226-2}}, page 287</ref><ref>[[Richard B. Morris]], ''Encyclopedia of American History'', Harper & Row (New York), 1961, page 266</ref> In [[1902 and 1903 United States Senate elections|1903]], he received a single vote for Illinois's senate seat.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650737/the_inter_ocean/ |title=Hopkins Elected To Senate; Joint Ballot Comes Today |date=21 January 1903 |work=The Inter Ocean |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216150012/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40650737/the_inter_ocean/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
At the start of the 20th century, he was successively editor (and part-owner) of ''The Lever'' in Chicago and of the journal into which it merged, ''The New Voice'', national organ of the Prohibition Party, founded in 1899. Woolley made two tours of Europe in 1901 and 1905 to speak for Prohibition, and died in [[Granada]], Spain, on August 13, 1922.<ref name="convention" /><ref name=nyt1/><ref name=battle1900/><ref name=nyt2/><ref name=ae/>


In the 1900s he was successively editor and part-owner of ''The Lever'' in Chicago and of the journal into which it merged, ''The New Voice'', national organ of the Prohibition Party, founded in 1899. Woolley made two tours of Europe in 1901 and 1905 to speak for Prohibition. On January 4, 1913, he announced that he was leaving the Prohibition Party due to its vote totals continuing to decrease with every presidential election.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539636/the-houston-post/ |title=John G. Woolley's European Letters |date=January 17, 1913 |work=The Houston Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311224508/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539636/the-houston-post/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |url-status=live |page=6 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539645/the-topeka-journal/ |title=John G. Woolley's European Letters |date=January 9, 1913 |work=The Topeka Journal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200311224510/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46539645/the-topeka-journal/ |archive-date=March 11, 2020 |url-status=live |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
==Books by John G. Woolley==

In 1922, he was commissioned by the [[World League Against Alcoholism]] to study prohibition in multiple countries, but died from a heart attack in [[Granada]], Spain, on August 13, 1922.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40649784/kansas_labor_review/ |title=John G. Woolley's European Letters |date=13 May 1922 |work=Kansas Labor Review |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216142854/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/40649784/kansas_labor_review/ |archive-date=16 December 2019 |url-status=live |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

==Works==


*''Seed''
*''Seed''
*''The Sower''
*''The Sower''
*''Civilization by Faith''
*''Civilization by Faith''
*''The Christian Citizen'' (1897-98)
*''The Christian Citizen'' (1897–1898)
*''The Lion Hunter'' (1900)
*''The Lion Hunter'' (1900)
*''Temperance Progress in the Nineteenth Century'' (1902)
*''Temperance Progress in the Nineteenth Century'' (1902)
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==References==
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==External links==
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Latest revision as of 06:40, 17 March 2023

This article is about the American Prohibitionist. For other people named John Woolley or Wooley, see John Woolley.
John Woolley
Personal details
Born
John Granville Woolley

(1850-02-15)February 15, 1850
Collinsville, Ohio, U.S.
DiedAugust 13, 1922(1922-08-13) (aged 72)
Granada, Spain
Political partyProhibition
Other political
affiliations		Republican
SpouseMary Veronica Gerhardt
Parents
  • Edwin C. Woolley (father)
  • Elizabeth Hunter Woolley (mother)
EducationOhio Wesleyan University (BA)
University of Michigan

John Granville Woolley (February 15, 1850 – August 13, 1922) was an American politician, lawyer, and public speaker who served as the Prohibition Party's presidential candidate in 1900.

Biography[edit]

John Granville Woolley was born in Collinsville, Ohio, on February 15, 1850, to Edwin C. Woolley and Elizabeth Hunter Woolley. In 1871, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and the University of Michigan in 1873 and later gained admission to the Illinois bar.[1] He was elected City Attorney in Paris, Illinois, in 1875 and became Prosecuting Attorney of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1881. Two years after entering private practice in New York in 1886, Woolley, a reformed alcoholic, began a career of public speaking around the country.[2][3][4][5][6] On January 31, 1888, he joined the Prohibition Party in New York City and later that year Clinton B. Fisk offered him a job to practice corporate law, but he rejected the offer.[7]

During the 1896 presidential election there were attempts to draft him for the Prohibition presidential nomination, but he chose not to run.[8] During the 1900 presidential election he ran for the Prohibition Party's presidential nomination and with the support of Hale Johnson, the party's 1896 vice presidential nominee who withdrew shortly before balloting, was able to narrowly defeat Silas C. Swallow for the nomination with 380 delegates to 320 on June 28, 1900.[9] Woolley, along with Henry B. Metcalf, placed third in the popular vote with over 209,000 votes.[2][10][11] In 1903, he received a single vote for Illinois's senate seat.[12]

In the 1900s he was successively editor and part-owner of The Lever in Chicago and of the journal into which it merged, The New Voice, national organ of the Prohibition Party, founded in 1899. Woolley made two tours of Europe in 1901 and 1905 to speak for Prohibition. On January 4, 1913, he announced that he was leaving the Prohibition Party due to its vote totals continuing to decrease with every presidential election.[13][14]

In 1922, he was commissioned by the World League Against Alcoholism to study prohibition in multiple countries, but died from a heart attack in Granada, Spain, on August 13, 1922.[15]

Works[edit]

  • Seed
  • The Sower
  • Civilization by Faith
  • The Christian Citizen (1897–1898)
  • The Lion Hunter (1900)
  • Temperance Progress in the Nineteenth Century (1902)
  • Civic Sermons
  • South Sea Letters (1905)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "John G. Woolley". Chicago Tribune. 14 August 1922. p. 7. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b Prohibition Ticket: Woolley and Metcalf; National Convention at Chicago Makes Its Nominations, The New York Times, June 29, 1900, page 7
  3. ^ Prohibition Treasury Looted, Says Woolley, The New York Times, November 24, 1904, page 2
  4. ^ The Battle of 1900: An Official Hand-Book for Every American Citizen, by L. White Busby, Willis J. Abbott, Oliver W. Stewart ("Prohibition Issues") and Dr. Howard S. Taylor, Monarch Books (Chicago and Philadelphia), 1900, page 523
  5. ^ John G Woolley Dies; Ran as Prohibitionist, The New York Times, August 22, 1922, page 8 (reprinting an August 13 Associated Press story from Granada)
  6. ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Woolley, John Granville" . Encyclopedia Americana.
  7. ^ "Mr. John G. Woolley Biography Extracts". The Ottawa Guardian. 7 March 1896. p. 2. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Mr. John G. Woolley". Ironwood News-Record. 7 March 1896. p. 14. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Woolley For President". Sioux City Journal. 29 June 1900. p. 2. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Tim Taylor, The Book of Presidents, Arno Press (New York), 1972, ISBN 0-405-22226-2, page 287
  11. ^ Richard B. Morris, Encyclopedia of American History, Harper & Row (New York), 1961, page 266
  12. ^ "Hopkins Elected To Senate; Joint Ballot Comes Today". The Inter Ocean. 21 January 1903. p. 1. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "John G. Woolley's European Letters". The Houston Post. January 17, 1913. p. 6. Archived from the original on March 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ "John G. Woolley's European Letters". The Topeka Journal. January 9, 1913. p. 2. Archived from the original on March 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "John G. Woolley's European Letters". Kansas Labor Review. 13 May 1922. p. 4. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

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