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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: James Cannon, Jr., Alexander Preston Shaw, Henry McNeal Turner, William Clyde Martin, Elijah Embree Hoss, Kevin W. Mannoia, Titus Lowe, Arthur James Moore, William Walter Peele, John Moore, George Richmond Grose, William Tecumseh Vernon, Garfield Bromley Oxnam, Edwin Ferdinand Lee, Clare Purcell, Adna Wright Leonard, John W. Gowdy, Eben Samuel Johnson, Raymond LeRoy Archer, Frederick Bohn Fisher, Kenneth Lee Carder, Horace Mellard DuBose, Vashti Murphy McKenzie, Franklin Elmer Ellsworth Hamilton, John McKendree Springer, Herbert George Welch, William Turner Watkins, Junius Ralph Magee, Charles Bayard Mitchell, Hiram Abiff Boaz, James Edward Dickey, Joseph Flintoft Berry, Hobart Baumann Amstutz, William Fraser McDowell, Charles Claude Selecman, Robert Elijah Jones, John Richard Bryant, James Whitford Bashford, Jashwant Rao Chitambar, Harry Lester Smith, Ernest Lynn Waldorf, Richard Joseph Cooke, William Fletcher McMurry, Donald N. Bastian, Urban Valentine Williams Darlington, Roberto Valenzuela Elphick, Samuel Ross Hay, Sante Uberto Barbieri, James Chamberlain Baker, Matthew Wesley Clair, Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs, Charles Wesley Flint, Wilson Thomas Hogue, Alexander Priestly Camphor, Keith A. Elford, Leslie Roy Marston. Excerpt: Bishop James Cannon, Jr. (13 November 1864 - 6 September 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 in Salisbury, Maryland, the son of Jame...
