Brehm, Marie Caroline (1859–1926)

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Brehm, Marie Caroline (1859–1926)

American temperance leader. Born in Ohio, 1859; died in Long Beach, California, 1926.

Ardent prohibitionist, devoted most of her life to lecturing on behalf of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU); held offices in temperance organizations in Illinois, Nebraska and California; also spoke at international conferences and represented US at World's Congress on Alcoholism in London (1911); ran as the Prohibitionist Party's vice-presidential nominee (1924), the 1st woman nominated by a recognized political party.

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