became the first state to pass a Prohibition statute, signed into law by Governor Hugh J. Anderson in 1846 after 20 years of advocacy by various native Temperance societies. The leading saloon-buster and future Portland mayor, Neal Dow, would later serve in the Maine legislature, as well become a brigadier general for the Union in the Civil War. This and other subsequently passed Maine laws mostly regulated the sale of distilled liquor, but in 1884 Temperance advocates succeeded in getting the 26th amendment to the state constitution passed through the legislature then by a large majority of voters -- 70,783 yeas; 23,811 nays. Though all alcoholic beverages -- except cider -- were outlawed for production and sale by the amendment, enforcement was inconsistent and mostly lax, differing from town to town. The US Congress and 36 states passed the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919 to extend Prohibition nationally, but its popularity quickly eroded leading to repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. Maine followed suit with the 54th amendment to their constitution repealing the 22nd soon after in 1934. Immigrants Early Europeans After the 1604 settlement at Saint Croix Island and the 1607 Popham Colony experiment French and English settlers established communities up and down the coast of Maine and inland via the rivers. The English colonists were mostly governed from the Plymouth Colony and later Boston while the French monitored from Quebec. These colonial powers frequently clashed, often pulling native communities into these fights on both sides. It was not until the 1763 Treaty_of_Paris that England gained full control over the North Atlantic coast and regular colonial hostilities receded. Irish Maine experienced a wave of Irish immigration in the mid-19th century, though many came to the state via Canada and Massachusetts, and before the Great Famine. There was a riot in Bangor between Irish and Yankee (nativist) sailors and lumbermen as early as 1834, and a number of early Catholic churches were burned or vandalized in coastal communities, where the Know-Nothing Party briefly flourished. After the Civil War, Maine's Irish-Catholic population began a process of integration and upward mobility. French Canadians In the late 19th century, many French Canadians arrived from Quebec and New Brunswick to work in the textile mill cities such as Lewiston and Biddeford. By the mid 20th century Franco-Americans comprised 30% of the state's population. Some migrants became lumberjacks but most concentrated in industrialized areas and