"The Worst Hard Time" page 82: "In Texas, a still turning out 130 gallons of whiskey a day was found operating on the farm of Senator Morris Sheppard, a Lone Star state political heavyweight who happened to be one of Prohibition's biggest backers - an author of the eighteenth amendment."
According the the Handbook of Texas, John Morris Sheppard was a United States Senator from eastern Texas.
Who all authored the amendment? I'm not sure...found a reference that mentioned Purley Baker, Wayne Wheeler, Bishop James Cannon, and other leaders of the Anti-Saloon League.
Sheppard introduced the Volstead Act on the Senate floor. Time credited him with co-authorship.
I wonder what the outcome was of the still found on Sheppard's property? Was it his? He doesn't seem to have lost the credibility to be a pro-Prohibition spokesman. He supported the amendment vocally to the end. I haven't found a reference to where the still being found discredited Sheppard professionally.
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