Oklahoma Beer Act of 1933

The Chapter 105 article found in volume forty-eight of the Statutes at Large was enacted into law with the Blaine Act and Cullen-Harrison Act. The beer taxation laws provided tax revenue for the relief of the 1930s financial crisis charged by the Roosevelt Administration's fiscal policy of the United States.[1]

The 72nd United States Congress proposed the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution as endorsed by John Nance Garner and Charles Curtis on February 20, 1933.[2] The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Volstead Act was repealed upon ratifying the twenty-first constitutional law abolishing Prohibition in the United States on December 5, 1933.[3]

On August 27, 1935, the Beer, Ale, Porter, and Similar Fermented Liquor codified law sections were officially repealed with the enactment of the Liquor Law Repeal and Enforcement Act of 1935.[4][5]

Beginning on November 10, 1958, the Oklahoma electoral precincts endorsed a referendum known as the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverages Initiative Petition No. 264.[6] The ballot appeal was subject for confirmation and consideration by the Governor of Oklahoma Raymond Gary prior to departing the Oklahoma Governor's office on January 12, 1959.

After approval by Oklahoma Governor Howard Edmondson and 27th Oklahoma Legislature on March 3, 1959, the state of Oklahoma convened a state-wide election regarding the wholesale and retail sales of an alcoholic drink prohibiting Oklahoma as an alcoholic beverage control state.[7] On April 7, 1959, Oklahoma registered 711,225 cast votes repealing the Oklahoma alcohol control and prohibition law. The Oklahoma constituents decisively defeated the alcohol law by a vote of 396,845 to 314,380.[8]

The Oklahoma election approved the distributive sales of packaged containers as original unopened alcoholic beverages merchandised by beer stores and liquor stores. The Oklahoma state statute created the Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board ministering the alcohol beverage regulations and open container laws of Oklahoma.[9]

• Text of Lambert v. State, 353 P.2d 150 (1960) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Casemine 
• Text of Oliver v. Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, 359 P.2d 183 (1961) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Casemine 
• Text of Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Lobo, 391 P.2d 819 (1964) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Anylaw 
• Text of Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Milam, 393 P.2d 823 (1964) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Casemine 
• Text of Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Welch, 446 P.2d 268 (1968) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Casemine 
• Text of Wright v. Oklahoma Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, 516 P.2d 245 (1973) is available from: CourtListener  Justia  Casemine 

During the early 1920s, American Authors Guild recognized the flamboyant and promiscuous lifestyles of the flapper's era as the Jazz Age produced the musical and social harmony of the Roaring Twenties. American literary writers, as Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein ― 27 rue de Fleurus ― defined the early twentieth century generational and social advocates as the Lost Generation of the temperance movement.

By the early 1930s, the Cinema of the United States vigilantly cultivated the American charm for the dissolute social norms and the cunning Speakeasy subculture of the alcohol prohibition era.

• Urbana Daily Courier (July 12, 1933). "Beer is O.K.'D by Bone Dry Oklahoma, But Close Vote on Repeal is Expected". Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• AP Staff (September 9, 1984). "OKLAHOMA'S ANTISALOON LAWS TO FACE VOTERS". The New York Times. Associated Press.
• King, Wayne (September 18, 1984). "OKLAHOMANS ARE VOTING ON SALE OF LIQUOR IN BARS". The New York Times.
• King, Wayne (September 20, 1984). "OKLAHOMA PREPARES TO MAKE A BAR DRINK LEGAL". The New York Times.

• "Industry Booms After Repeal of Prohibition, Ca. 1933". Internet Archive. Universal Studios. 1933.
• "National Archives Footage: Prohibition". Internet Archive. University of California San Francisco Library.
• Prohibition - Ken Burns playlist on YouTube
• Prohibition in the United States: National Ban of Alcohol on YouTube
• WKY News: Tuesday, April 7, 1959 - Oklahoma Election for Repeal of Prohibition on YouTube
• "Yesterday's Newsreel Prohibition & Bootlegging 59354". Internet Archive. PeriscopeFilm.

• Media related to Alcohol prohibition in the United States at Wikimedia Commons
• Media related to Prohibition at Wikimedia Commons
• Collection of Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Prohibition in the United States ~ 1911-1937. OCLC 747998854.