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For the next five years, Cannon became the center of several scandals that generated sensational headlines across the country. Beginning in 1929, political enemies and disaffected churchmen, notably Virginia senator Carter Glass, accused Cannon of stock-market gambling, adultery, and embezzling campaign funds.

Celebrated by his followers as Protestant America's foremost champion, he was denounced by critics for his anti-Catholicism and nativism. His moment of triumph in 1928 was short-lived. Intense, outspoken, and combative Cannon engendered fierce loyalty and deep enmity. Best known for leading the South in revolt against Al Smith in the 1928 presidential election, he symbolized the struggle against an increasingly urban, pluralistic society. Cannon represented the older America of rural and small-town life, Victorian morality, and Protestant hegemony.

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Often he bested the professional politicians at their own game. Plunging into politics in Virginia and the nation to secure and protect prohibition, Cannon dramatically broke the taboo against preachers in politics. A paradoxical figure, he seemed as comfortable in the world of business and public affairs as in the church, and critics condemned him as an exemplar of the materialistic values of the 1920s. Methodist bishop James Cannon, Jr., was probably the most influential southern clergyman between the Civil War and World War II and certainly the most controversial. In the late 1920s and early 1930s 'Bishop Cannon' became a household word in much of America. Item: 185989698949 Prohibition and Politics: The Life of Bishop James Cannon, Jr.

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