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Get to Know Major Walton Atwater Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C.

Published August 28, 2012

Meet Major Walton Atwater Green, the Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C. in 1925. Don't let him catch you with some hooch - this is not a guy you want to cross. Learn more about Major W.A. Green and his role in enforcing Prohibition in the nation's capital.

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Meet Major Walton Atwater Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector for Washington, D.C. This is not a guy you want to cross. Don’t let him catch you with some hooch.

September 5, 1925. Washington, D.C. "W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy) — September 5, 1925. Washington, D.C. “W.A. Green, Chief Prohibition Inspector.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Shorpy)

Posted in Faces & Places of Yesterday
and tagged 1920s, Prohibition

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