Governor John St. John, with the backing of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union, forced the legislature to pass a constitutional amendment for Prohibition. Kansas voters then approved it in 1880, leading the nation toward a ban on all manufacturing and sale of intoxicating liquors. History now realizes Prohibition was the nation's first campaign against domestic violence. The movement was headed by “Saint Frances”--Frances Willard, who led the union from 1879 until her death in 1
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