1910's Government and Politics | Volstead Act of 1919

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By: Andrew Volstead

Date: October 28, 1919

Source: Volstead, Andrew. Volstead Act of 1919. U.S. House. 66th Cong., 1st sess., H.R. 6810.U.S. Statutes at Large 41 (1919): 305–323. Available online at "Documents of American History II." http://tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz/~calda/Documents/1920s/Volstead.h... ; website home page: http://www.tucnak.fsv.cuni.cz (accessed January 19, 2003).

About the Author: Andrew Volsted (1860–1947) was a second-generation Norwegian American from Minnesota. In 1903, the Republican was elected to Congress for the first of ten terms. On May 19, 1919, as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he sponsored the National Prohibition Act—more commonly known as the Volstead Act—prohibiting the manufacture, transportation,...