14. Carrie Amelia Nation
Long before the 18th Amendment, radical prohibitionist and member of the temperance movement, Carrie Nation went on a hatchet-wielding crusade to take down alcohol establishments. Standing six-feet tall, the intimidating woman literally went in swinging a hatchet. Nation had good reason to act nuts. Her husband back in Kentucky had drunk himself to death, leaving her a widow with a child. She remarried… to a preacher. The pair moved to Kansas, the first state to ban booze in the 20th century. The problem was, nobody enforced the law. Saloons went on—business as usual—until Nation came in swinging her hatchet. She died in 1911, too soon to see the 18th Amendment come to fruition.