| Enoch A. Holtwick | |
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| Born | Enock Arden Holtwick (1881-01-03)January 3, 1881 Montgomery County, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | March 29, 1972(1972-03-29) (aged 91) Greenville, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Political party | Prohibition |
Enoch Arden Holtwick (January 3, 1881 – March 29, 1972) was an American educator with a long record of actively supporting the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Illinois State Treasurer in 1936; its candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1950; its candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1952; and its candidate for president in 1956.
Holtwick was born in Montgomery County, Missouri, and grew up near Rhineland, Missouri, where his family was active in the Free Methodist Church.
He moved to California, taught school, and served as president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College from 1915 to 1918.
In 1919, he returned to the Midwest, and joined the faculty of Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, where he taught history and political science until his retirement in 1951. Long after retirement he continued to give an annual lecture to the student body with a survey of current world events and issues.
He died at Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Greenville, Illinois.
In Greenville, he is memorialized by the Enoch A. Holtwick Literary Award and Enoch A. Holtwick Hall, a residence building.
References
- Allan H. Keith, Historical Stories: About Greenville and Bond County, IL Consulted on August 15, 2007.
- James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections, 1789–1992 (Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996) p282
- James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections, 1789–1992 (Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996) p282
- '1956 Prohibition Party Candidate Dies Tuesday,' The Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois), March 31, 1972, pg. 16
- Prohibitionist Paty-Enoch Holtwick, Our Presidential Candidate 1956
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Succeeded byRutherford Decker |
| Preceded byDale H. Learn | Prohibition Party vice presidential candidate 1952 (lost) |
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- 1881 births
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- 20th-century American educators
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- 1952 United States vice-presidential candidates
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