26-05-2025
This man sold liquor to politicians during Prohibition. He told The Post his story.
As the United States went through a dry spell during Prohibition, a man with a signature look kept the liquor flowing for the nation's lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
George Cassiday, known as 'the Man in the Green Hat,' operated for a decade, from the start of Prohibition in 1920 through the presidencies of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. The 18th Amendment had been passed in 1919, banning the sale, transport and manufacture of alcohol. Cassiday made his career storing liquor in the House office building and selling it to lawmakers.
