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George Remus was born in Germany on November 13, 1876, to Frank and Maria Remus. He had one sister, Frances, born in Germany. On July 20, 1899, Remus married Lillian Klauff. Their daughter, born in 1900, was Romola Remus, who became a child actress in silent films, playing cinema's first Dorothy Gale in the 1908 short film of The Wizard of Oz when she was eight years old.was a German-born American lawyer who found success as a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition.

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What role did George play in the prohibition era

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What role did George play in the prohibition era

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After graduating from the Chicago College of Pharmacy at 19 years of age, Remus became a certified pharmacist, and bought the pharmacy at age 21. Within five years, Remus expanded, buying another drugstore. However, he soon tired of the pharmacy business, and by age 24 he had become a lawyer.

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Remus had 3,000 employees working three shifts a day and was doing millions of dollars worth of business a year. In 1925 Remus was indicted for violating the Volstead Act 3,000 times. It took the jury less than two hours to find Remus guilty and he was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison. When he got out he shot his wife for betraying him, was tried in court and found not guilty on the sole ground of insanity.

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January 20, 1952, Covington, KY
George Remus was a German-born American lawyer who found success as a bootlegger during the early days of Prohibition
He was a man of many talents. After immigrating to America in the late 1800s, he went on to become a pharmacist

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3 pictures that represent different aspects of his life

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3 pictures that represent different aspects of his life

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Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.

Prohibition was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality.

Premiered on PBS: October 2, 2011

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Prohibition is a three-part, five-and-a-half-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed. Full film now streaming.