John Granville Woolley (February 15, 1850 - August 13, 1922), a lawyer and public speaker, was the Prohibition Party

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's candidate for President of the United States

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 in the election of 1900

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. He was nominated for President, together with Henry B. Metcalf

Henry B. Metcalf

Henry Brewer Metcalf was a noted prohibitionist in the United States, who was the Prohibition Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1900. Along with Presidential candidate John G. Woolley, the ticket garnered approximately 210,000 votes in the general election.Born in Boston on...

 of Rhode Island for Vice President

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, at the party's national convention

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 in Chicago

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 on June 27–28, 1900. (Woolley had declined a previous nomination for President in 1896.) Woolley received the third-highest number of popular votes on November 6, 1900, after William McKinley

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 and William Jennings Bryan

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 (over 209,000 or 1.5% of the national total), but not a single vote of the Electoral College in December.

Woolley was born in Collinsville, Ohio

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 on February 15, 1850, and graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University

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 in 1871, later gaining admission to the Illinois bar. He was elected City Attorney in Paris, Illinois

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 in 1875 and became Prosecuting Attorney of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1881. Two years after entering private practice in New York in 1886, Woolley began a career of public speaking around the country. At the turn of the century, he was successively editor (and part-owner) of The Lever in Chicago and of the journal into which it merged, The New Voice, national organ of the Prohibition Party. Woolley made two tours of Europe in 1901 and 1905 to speak for Prohibition, and died in Granada

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, Spain, on August 13, 1922.

Books by John G. Woolley

• Seed
• The Sower
• Civilization by Faith
• Temperance Progress in the Nineteenth Century
• Civic Sermons