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Mabel Walker Willebrandt (May 23, 1889 – April 6, 1963), popularly known to her contemporaries as the First Lady of Law, was an American lawyer who served as the United States Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the ...
May 19, 2024 · Mabel Walker Willebrandt, American lawyer who served as assistant attorney general of the United States from 1921 to 1929 during the Prohibition era. She was notorious for relentlessly enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment—the prohibition against the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
Life Story: Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1889–1963) Assistant Attorney General and Prohibition Enforcer The story of the highest-ranking woman in the federal government who used her intellect and her network to enforce Prohibition and reform the prison system.
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Mar 18, 2021 · Mabel Walker Willebrandt, undated. (Photo Courtesy of the Library of Congress) As the Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Willebrandt was the highest ranking woman in President Harding’s and Coolidge’s administrations. In her eight years in office, she prosecuted thousands of Prohibition cases and pursued the nation’s most infamous bootleggers.
Jan 26, 2021 · Published January 26, 2021. Updated May 24, 2023. In 1921, Mabel Walker Willebrandt became the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. federal government. Appointed as the assistant attorney general, she used her power to enforce Prohibition. Library of Congress Mabel Walker Willebrandt sits at her desk. Date unknown.
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Born Mabel Walker on May 23, 1889, in Woodsdale, Kansas; died of lung cancer on April 6, 1963, in Riverside, California; daughter of David William Walker (a newspaper editor) and Myrtle (Eaton) Walker (a teacher); expelled from Park College in Parksville, Missouri; graduated from the State Normal School in Tempe, Arizona, 1911; University of ...
Feb 3, 2021 · During the 1920s, there were few women in America with the prominence of United States Assistant Attorney General Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1889-1963), whose task of enforcing Prohbition along with other responsibilities, gave her a highly public, though sometimes controversial, persona.
