Claude A. Watson
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Claude A. Watson was a lawyer, businessman, and minister from Hermon (a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California), who was nationally active in the temperance movement. He was the Prohibition Party candidate for vice-president of the United States in 1936 and was the party's presidential candidate in both 1944 and 1948.
A certified pilot, Watson was the first U.S. presidential candidate in history to fly his own airplane and flew over 16,000 miles campaigning.
