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Catherine Peck Wylde In 1918, Democrat Catherine Peck Wylde campaigned against the incumbent state senator, George L. Thompson, in New York's 1st District. Wylde ran on a prohibition platform. Although several democratic sections of her district opposed the amendment, Mrs. Wylde declared in a campaign speech that she would support the passage of a prohibition amendment.