Claim: Nominated by Republicans for the 1867 United States Senate election in New York, Roscoe Conkling was known for his temperance and hatred of tobacco.
Evidence: Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829 – April 18, 1888) was a lawyer and politician from New York who served both as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Conkling, who was temperate and detested tobacco, was known for his physical condition, maintained through regular exercise and boxing, an unusual devotion for his time. Conkling was elected to the Senate in 1867 as a leading Radical, who supported the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction. The Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.