<P> Tennessee passed a statewide prohibition law in 1910, effectively barring the legal distillation of Jack Daniel's within the state . Motlow challenged the law in a test case that eventually worked its way to the Tennessee Supreme Court . The court upheld the law as constitutional, however . </P> <P> Daniel died in 1911 from blood poisoning . An oft - told tale is that the infection began in one of his toes, which Daniel injured one early morning at work by kicking his safe in anger when he could not get it open (he was said to always have had trouble remembering the combination). However, Daniel's modern biographer has asserted that the story is not true . </P> <P> Because of the prohibition in Tennessee, the company began distilling operations in St Louis, Missouri, and Birmingham, Alabama, though none of the production from these locations was ever sold due to quality problems . The Alabama operation was halted following a similar statewide prohibition law in that state, and the St. Louis operation was halted by the onset of nationwide prohibition following passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920 . While the passage of the Twenty - first Amendment in 1933 repealed prohibition at the federal level, state prohibition laws (including Tennessee's) remained in effect, thus preventing the Lynchburg distillery from reopening . Motlow, who had become a Tennessee state senator, led efforts to repeal these laws, allowing production to restart in 1938 . The five - year gap between national repeal and Tennessee repeal was commemorated in 2008 with a gift pack of two bottles, one for the 75th anniversary of the end of prohibition and a second commemorating the 70th anniversary of the reopening of the distillery . </P> <P> The Jack Daniel's distillery ceased operations from 1942 to 1946 when the U.S. government banned the manufacture of whiskey due to World War II . Motlow resumed production of Jack Daniel's in 1947 after good - quality corn was again available . Motlow died the same year . He bequeathed the distillery to his children, Robert, Reagor, Dan, Conner, and Mary, upon his death . </P>

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