Claude A. Watson

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Claude A. Watson was a lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon ( a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California ), who was nationally active in the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1936 and was the party's presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948.

A certified pilot, Watson was the first U.S. presidential candidate in history to fly his own airplane and flew over 16,000 miles campaigning.

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• Temperance organizations

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• Sky Writing
• Hermon, California
• Temperance Movement Groups and Leaders in the U.S.