Roy Asa Haynes (1881–1940) was an American newspaper editor and government official who was
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury is one of several positions in the United States Department of the Treasury, serving under the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
History
According to the U.S. statute, there are eight Assis ...
in charge of
Prohibition
Prohibition is the act or practice of forbidding something by law; more particularly the term refers to the banning of the manufacture, storage (whether in barrels or in bottles), transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcoholic b ...
enforcement from 1920–1925. He was succeeded by political appointee
Lincoln Clark Andrews, who reorganized the enforcement bureau. He was the editor of a daily newspaper in
Hillsboro, Ohio
Hillsboro is a city in and the county seat of Highland County, Ohio, United States, approximately west of Chillicothe, Ohio, Chillicothe and east of Cincinnati. The population was 6,481 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census.
History
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Haynes was appointed by
Warren Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular sitting U.S. presidents w ...
and considered a puppet of the
Anti-Saloon League
The Anti-Saloon League, now known as the American Council on Addiction and Alcohol Problems, is an organization of the temperance movement in the United States.
Founded in 1893 in Oberlin, Ohio, it was a key component of the Progressive Era, an ...
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References
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United States assistant secretaries of the treasury
1881 births
1940 deaths