William H. Boole
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William H. Boole was the pastor of the Willet Street Methodist Church in the Bowery
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 in New York City
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. He ran in the 1882 New York gubernatorial election with the Prohibition Party
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Biography

He was born in 1828 to John Boole and Magdalene Jane Ackerman, and he had a brother Francis John Ackerman Boole who ran unsuccessfully for the Mayor of New York City
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. He married Eunice Goodwin around 1843. He ran in the 1882 New York gubernatorial election from the Prohibition Party
Prohibition Party
The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is the oldest existing third party in the US. The party was an integral part of the temperance movement...

 and he declined the 1883 nomination. He married Ella Alexander on on July 3, 1883.

He was a trustee and juryman for Prohibition Park
Prohibition Park
Prohibition Park was a temperance town used as a summer colony on Staten Island....

 on Staten Island
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He died on February 24, 1896 at his home in Prohibition Park
Prohibition Park
Prohibition Park was a temperance town used as a summer colony on Staten Island....

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