American temperance advocate, born at Lewisburg, PA, on the 23rd of September 1823. He is a lawyer and an earnest laborer for temperance. In 1867, at a convention in Harrisburg, of which he was chairman, he advocated the formation of a distinct temperance party, which materialized at Chicago in 1869, where the Prohibition party was formed, with Black as president of the convention. At the Prohibitionist convention held in Columbus, OH, in 1872, he was nominated by the party as their candidate for President. He is the author of Is There a Necessity for a Prohibition Party? (1876); A History of the Prohibition Party (1880); and The Prohibition Party (1885).
