temperance advocate
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Mysteria was a big temperance advocate, for both women and men who wrote in.
From Slate ● May 16, 2021
A convert to Universalism, he became a passionate temperance advocate and supported women’s rights and abolitionism.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2017
This bill was greeted with all the enthusiasm of a temperance advocate in a bar by the Renewal Fuel Association, which exists to promote ethanol usage.
From Forbes ● Feb. 9, 2015
"I personally have been an earnest temperance advocate for 40 years and I am only willing to support a substitute measure for Prohibition which promises better temperance than Prohibition."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among the people present were the late Dr. J. G. Holland, the late Mr. Seymour of the 'New York Times,' Mr. Page, the philanthropist and temperance advocate, and, I think, Senator Frye, of Maine.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 11. by Mark Twain
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