American politician
David Leigh Colvin (January 28, 1880[1] in Charleston, South Carolina[2] – September 7, 1959) was an American politician and member of the Prohibition Party and the Law Preservation Party .
He spent most of his life in New York, where he was a historian and a temperance society executive.[3] He attended the American Temperance University and Ohio Wesleyan University before going on to study law at the University of California, Berkeley , University of Chicago , and Columbia University .
He ran for U.S. Senator from New York in 1916 and 1932 , for Mayor of New York City in 1917, for Vice President of the United States in 1920 , for U.S. Representative from New York in 1922, and for President of the United States in 1936 . Colvin was Chairman of the Prohibition National Committee from 1926 to 1932.[4]
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