Eugene W. Chafin

Eugene Chafin
Personal details
Born Eugene Wilder Chafin
(1852-11-01)November 1, 1852
East Troy, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died November 30, 1920(1920-11-30) (aged 68)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
Political party Prohibition

Eugene Wilder Chafin (November 1, 1852 – November 30, 1920) was a United States politician from the Prohibition Party.[1]

Biography

Chafin was born in East Troy, Wisconsin and worked as a lawyer in Waukesha, Wisconsin from 1876 to 1900.[1] 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 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. 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 in the 1908 election and 1912 election receiving 253,840 and 207,972 votes, respectively, approximately 1.5% each time. He also ran as the Prohibition Party candidate in the U.S. Senate election in Arizona in 1914.

He died in 1920 at his home in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, and was later buried at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha, Wisconsin.[2]

Family

Chafin married Carrie Arvilla Hunkins, daughter of Robert Hastings Hunkins and Hannah Emerson on November 24, 1881.[3][4] They had a daughter Desdemona Eleanor (born March 17, 1893).[1]

Books by E. W. Chafin

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

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 WF staff 1920.
  2. ↑ November 1920 obituary & newspaper report
  3. ↑ "Chafin, Eugene W, Marriage Index Record". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  4. ↑ "Hunkins, Carrie A, Marriage Index Record". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

References

  • WF staff (November 30, 1920). "Noted prohibitionist hurt in explosion in his home". Waukesha Freeman. Retrieved March 2015. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) — Cutting held by Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Rohr, Ellen M., ed. (2011). "Machine readable copy of "Noted prohibitionist hurt in explosion in his home"". Waukesha County: Online Genealogy and Family History Library.

Further reading

Party political offices
Preceded by
Silas C. Swallow		 Prohibition nominee for President of the United States
1908, 1912		 Succeeded by
Frank Hanly
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