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William Jennings Bryan, (born March 19, 1860, Salem, Ill., U.S.—died July 26, 1925, Dayton, Tenn.), U.S. politician and orator. He practiced law at Jacksonville, Ill. (1883–87), before moving to Lincoln, Neb., where he was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1890. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1891–95), he became the national leader ...
Mrs. William J. Bryan (née Mary Elizabeth Baird), 1897. Courtesy Northern Illinois University Libraries. William Jennings Bryan fused Populist rhetoric and policies with a new Democratic coalition. In the process became one of Nebraska’s — and the nation’s — favorite sons. But, like many early Nebraskans, he was born somewhere else ...
29 de may. de 2018 · William Jennings Bryan. Born March 19, 1860 (Salem, Illinois) Died July 26, 1925 (Dayton, Ohio) Lawyer and politician. " [It is] better to trust in the Rock of Ages [Christianity] than to learn the ages or rocks." During his long career in law and politics, including three unsuccessful bids for the presidency, William Jennings Bryan gained fame ...
Cross of Gold speech, classic of American political oratory delivered on July 8, 1896, by William Jennings Bryan in closing the debate on the party platform at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago during the campaign for the presidential election of 1896. The Republican Party platform for the election, formulated at its convention in ...
William Jennings Bryan was born of rugged Irish-English Scotch ancestry in Salem, Illinois, 19 March I860.2 He gained his education at Illinois College, where he majored in classical stud ies, and at the Union College of Law in Chicago. Bryan initially practiced law in Jacksonville, Illinois, and later in Lincoln, Nebras ka.
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was a Congressman from Nebraska, three-time presidential candidate (1896, 1900, and 1908), and later Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. In 1896, Bryan faced an uphill battle as the Democratic and Populist nominee. Democrats had held the White House for the previous four years and were widely ...
William Jennings Bryan. Mrs. William J. Bryan (née Mary Elizabeth Baird), 1897. Courtesy Northern Illinois University Libraries. William Jennings Bryan fused Populist rhetoric and policies with a new Democratic coalition. In the process became one of Nebraska’s — and the nation’s — favorite sons. But, like many early Nebraskans, he was ...
