Eugene Wilder Chafin was an United States

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 politician from the Prohibition Party. Chafin was born in East Troy, Wisconsin

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 and worked as a lawyer

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 at Waukesha, Wisconsin

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 from 1876 to 1900. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Congress (Wisconsin) in 1882 and (Chicago) in 1902, for Attorney-General of Wisconsin in 1886 and 1900, for Governor of Wisconsin in 1898, and for Attorney-General of Illinois

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 in 1904. In 1908 he was appointed to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and in the following year moved to Arizona

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. While in Arizona he ran for that state's United States Senate Seat.

He was the Prohibition Party candidate for President of the United States

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 in the 1908 election and 1912 election receiving 253,840 and 207,972 votes, respectively, approximately 1.5% each time.

Books by E. W. Chafin

• Voters' Handbook, (1876)
• Lives of the Presidents, (1896)
• Lincoln, the Man of Sorrow, (1908)
• Washington as a Statesman, (1909)