National Temperance Council

The National Temperance Council was established in 1913 to coordinate the activities of numerous organizations in the temperance movement.[1] Its purpose included the promotion of alcohol education.[1] Its goal was the ratification of an amendment to the United States Constitution outlawing the manufacture, distribution and sale of alcoholic beverages throughout the country.

The National Temperance Council stated that it represented 14-15 million American citizens and had a membership of "22 organizations, church boards, and commissions", with representatives from major Christian denominations.[2] Notable temperance organisations in the United States that held membership in the National Temperance and Prohibition Council included the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company, International Organisation of Good Templars, American Temperance Society, and Prohibition Party.[3]

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References
  1. The New York Templar. 1925. p. 6. The National Temperance council was organized in Columbus, Ohio, in 1913, under the name of "Council of One Hundred", for the purpose of promoting temperance education...
  2. Hearings Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-Fourth Congress, First Session on H.R. 7000L An Act to Provide for Strengthening of the Reserve Forces, and for Other Purposes. United States Congress Senate Committee on Armed Services. 1955. p. 153.
  3. "The Tide is Turning: NTPC Sees Dry Crackdown". The Union Signal: A Journal of Social Welfare. National Woman's Christian Temperance Union. 97: 6. 1971.
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