Fillmore Condit

Fillmore Condit (September 4, 1855 – January 6, 1939) was an American inventor, temperance activist and local politician serving New Jersey and later Long Beach, California.

[3] The couple moved to Verona, New Jersey, where Fillmore soon participated in local politics, serving on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

[5] In July 1912, a newspaper article entitled "Buys Mansion to Bar Out Negroes" describes how his wife, Ida Francis (Rafter) Condit, purchased a property next to theirs in Essex Fells, New Jersey, to keep Black purchasers from buying the property, quoting Mrs. Condit as saying that she "knew all of our homes would be ruined, especially mine, which is just next door.

[8] He spoke at the National Suffrage Day open-air meeting in Montclair,[9] and was one of the speakers during the tour of the "Torch of Victory," circulated under the auspices of the Women's Political Union.

[10] Condit was put up by the Anti-Saloon League as a candidate for governor of New Jersey in 1919,[11] but for personal reasons decided to withdraw, obtaining concessions from the Republican Party they would support prohibition.