constitutional amendment to ban the sale of liquor, and the prohibitionists rallied to that goal. Hanly was a prohibition lecturer throughout the United States from 1910 to 1920 and in France in 1919. He organized the Flying Squadron of America (sometimes called Hanly's Flying Squadron), a temperance organization that staged a nationwide campaign to promote temperance. It consisted of three groups of revivalist-like speakers who toured cities across the country between September 30, 1914 and June 6, 1915. Hanly left the Republican party to join the new Prohibition Party following his term as governor. In 1915 he was nominated to be the party's candidate for governor, but he declined, and instead became the Progressive Party's candidate. He was later nominated to be the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the United States in the 1916 election. Hanly was overwhelmingly defeated; the ticket of Hanly and Ira Landrith garnered 221,030 votes, or about 1.2% of the total. In April 1920 Hanly argued the case of Hawke v. Smith, a challenge to the Eighteenth Amendment, before the United States Supreme Court. The case was based on the belief that the amendment had been invalidated when Ohio overturned their previous ratification of the amendment after a public referendum. Hanly won a unanimous decision issued on June 1, 1920, upholding prohibition and determining that Ohio could not change their vote after the tally had already been taken among the states. Death While on a trip to Ohio in 1920 to give anti-liquor lectures, he was involved in an automobile-train accident near Dennison, Ohio and died from his injuries. He is interred at Hillside Cemetery, near Williamsport, Indiana. Hanly is remembered as an enigmatic reformer and the Don Quixote for prohibition. He remains one of Indiana's most controversial governors. Electoral history Source (Popular Vote): Source (Electoral Vote): See also List of governors of Indiana Flying Squadron Also known as "Hanly's Flying Squadron." Temperance movement Temperance organizations References Notes Bibliography External links Biography from Indiana Historical Bureau Indiana County History - Hanly Biography National Governors Association Biography Details of Hawke v. Smith James Hanly at FindAGrave |- |- |- 1863 births 1920 deaths 19th-century American politicians 20th-century American politicians Accidental deaths in Ohio Methodists from Indiana Burials in Indiana Republican Party governors of Indiana Indiana Prohibitionists Indiana Progressives (1912) Republican Party Indiana state senators People from Champaign County, Illinois People from Warren County, Indiana People from