Enoch A. Holtwick

Enoch A. Holtwick
Born
Enock Arden Holtwick

(1881-01-03)January 3, 1881
Montgomery County, Missouri, U.S.
DiedMarch 29, 1972(1972-03-29) (aged 91)
Greenville, Illinois, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationEducator
Political partyProhibition

Enoch Arden Holtwick (January 3, 1881 – March 29, 1972) was an American educator with a long record of actively supporting the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for Illinois State Treasurer in 1936; its candidate for U.S. Senator from Illinois in 1938, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1948 and 1950; its candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1952; and its candidate for president in 1956.

Holtwick was born in Montgomery County, Missouri, and grew up near Rhineland, Missouri, where his family was active in the Free Methodist Church.[1]

He moved to California, taught school, and served as president of Los Angeles Pacific Junior College from 1915 to 1918.[2]

In 1919, he returned to the Midwest, and joined the faculty of Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois, where he taught history and political science until his retirement in 1951.[3] Long after retirement he continued to give an annual lecture to the student body with a survey of current world events and issues.

He died at Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Greenville, Illinois.[4][5]

In Greenville, he is memorialized by the Enoch A. Holtwick Literary Award and Enoch A. Holtwick Hall, a residence building.

  1. ^ Allan H. Keith, Historical Stories: About Greenville and Bond County, IL Consulted on August 15, 2007.
  2. ^ James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections, 1789–1992 (Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996) p282
  3. ^ James T. Havel, U.S. Presidential Candidates and the Elections, 1789–1992 (Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1996) p282
  4. ^ '1956 Prohibition Party Candidate Dies Tuesday,' The Freeport Journal-Standard (Freeport, Illinois), March 31, 1972, pg. 16
  5. ^ Prohibitionist Paty-Enoch Holtwick, Our Presidential Candidate 1956