Roy Asa Haynes
Roy Asa Haynes | |
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| Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement | |
| In office 16 March 1921 – 31 March 1925 | |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | Lincoln Clark Andrews |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1881 |
| Died | 1941 (aged 59–60) |
Roy Asa Haynes (1881–1940) was an American newspaper editor and government official who was United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement from 1920–1925.[1] He was succeeded by political appointee Lincoln Clark Andrews, who reorganized the enforcement bureau.[2] He was the editor of a daily newspaper in Hillsboro, Ohio.[3] Haynes was appointed by Warren Harding and considered a puppet of the Anti-Saloon League.[4]
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- ↑ "Cover: Roy Asa Haynes". Time. July 23, 1923. Archived from the original on June 26, 2006. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Aut Vox, aut Vis". Time. July 20, 1925. Archived from the original on February 19, 2012. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ↑ "From Woman's Christian Temperance Union web site subsection History:Crusades". Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Archived from the original on August 29, 2011. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
- ↑ Daniel Okrent (2010). Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7432-7702-0.