The presidents of the WCTU and their terms of office:
1874 - 1879 - Annie Turner Wittenmeyer
1879 - 1898 - Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard
1898 - 1914 - Lillian M. N. Stevens
1914 - 1925 - Anna Adams Gordon
1925 - 1933 - Ella Alexander Boole
1933 - 1944 - Ida BelleWise Smith
1944 - 1953 - Mamie White Colvin
1953 - 1959 - Agnes Dubbs Hays
1959 - 1974 - Ruth Tibbets Tooze
1974 - 1980 - Edith Kirkendall Stanley
1980 - 1988 - Martha Greer Edgar
1988 - 1996 - Rachel Catherine Bubar Kelly
1996 - 2006 - Sarah Frances Ward
2006 - Current -Rita Kaye Wert
Womens Christian Temperance Union (WTCU)
Francis Willard
prohibition
Frances Willard was a leader of the WCTU and helped to build it into a strong national force.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union was created in 1873.
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) led the crusade against the sale of alcoholic beverages in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They believed that alcohol was destructive to families and society, and they advocated for temperance and eventually prohibition laws.
the Prohibition and through that, the rise to power of organized crime.
Frances Willard, born in 1839, was more than a Temperance leader. She was also a schoolteacher, and college president. She was pivotal in the formation of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, but later left briefly because the group did not also push for women's suffrage. She rejoined the group several years later and remained it's president until her death.
Frances Willard was the leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1879. She was a prominent figure in the temperance movement and advocated for the prohibition of alcohol.
Women's Christian Temperance Union Public Fountain was created in 1912.