AHe passed a statewide prohibition law stating it was illegal to make or sell alcohol. Neal S. Dow was the mayor of the city of Portland in Maine and was also a general in the Union Army during the Civil War. He was a highly controversial character who once ordered for a troop to fire on a crowd, where he killed one person, and then was tried for this. He then became a leader of the Temperance Movement, following his political career. The temperance movement is a movement against the consumption of alcohol, something he stood for the whole of his life.
