\"American Bishop\" James Cannon Jr hand Signed 3X5 Index Card For Sale

Up for sale the "American Bishop" James Cannon Jr  hand Signed 3X5 Index Card.

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James Cannon Jr.

(November 13, 1864 – September 6, 1944) was an American

Bishop

of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,

elected in 1918. He was also a prominent leader in the temperance movement in the United States

in the 1920s until derailed by scandal. H. L. Mencken

said in 1934: "Six years ago he was the undisputed boss of the United

States. Congress was his troop of Boy Scouts, and Presidents trembled whenever

his name was mentioned.... But since that time there has been a violent

revolution, and his whole world is in collapse." Cannon

was born on 13 November 1864 in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of James and Lydia

R. (Pimrose) Cannon. The younger Cannon married Miss Laura Virginia Bennett of Louisa County, Virginia August 1, 1888,

who was the daughter of William W. Bennett, President of Randolph-Macon College

from 1877-86. Cannon was educated in the schools of Salisbury. He earned his A.B.

degree from Randolph–Macon College in 1884. He earned

his A.M. from Princeton University in 1889. The degree

of Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon Cannon in

1903 by Randolph-Macon College. Princeton University awarded him an honorary

D.D. degree. Cannon was the Superintendent of the Virginia State Anti-Saloon

League, beginning in 1909, as well as Legislative Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America. His appointment

as bishop in 1918 gave him nationwide influence as he worked zealously to

achieve national prohibition through the Eighteenth Amendment. After the death

of Anti-Saloon League leader Wayne Wheeler

in 1927, Cannon, chairman of the Methodist

Board of Temperance and Social Service, emerged as the most powerful

leader of the temperance movement in the United States.

Mencken said of Cannon that, "Congress was his troop of Boy Scouts and

Presidents trembled whenever his name was mentioned."