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Green Clay Smith (1826-1895), a Major General in the United States Army, received his law degree from the Lexington Law School and became a member of the state legislature of Kentucky. In 1862 during the Civil War, he was elected to Congress and represented a pro-Union district. He worked for reunification of the state's dissident factions. In 1866 became Territorial Governor of Montana.
Later in life he became an ordained Baptist minister and was an ardent supporter of the temperance movement. He was the presidential candidate of the National Prohibition Party in the election of 1876.
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See also
- Prohibition Party presidential election results
- Temperance organizations
- Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S.