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  2. People's Party (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The People's Party, usually known as the populist party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist [2] political party in the United States in the late 19th century. . The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but declined rapidly after the 1896 United States presidential election in which most of its natural ...

  3. Omaha Platform - Wikipedia

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    The Populist, or People's, Party went on to capture 11 seats in the United States House of Representatives, several governors and the state legislatures of Kansas, Nebraska and North Carolina. 1892 Presidential nominee and former Greenbacker James B. Weaver received over a million popular votes, and won four states ( Colorado , Kansas, Idaho ...

  4. Populism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but fell apart after it nominated Democrat ...

  5. Ignatius L. Donnelly - Wikipedia

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    In 1877, Donnelly spoke at a meeting of 10,000 people where he read his preamble to the conference platform. The document of 12 short paragraphs, as altered slightly for the party's first nominating convention in Omaha that July, was the pithiest and soon became the most widely circulated statement of the Populist credo. [5]

  6. Ocala Demands - Wikipedia

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    The Ocala Demands was a platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.In December, 1890, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, more commonly known as the Southern Farmers' Alliance, its affiliate the Colored Farmers' Alliance, and the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association met jointly in the Marion Opera House in Ocala, Florida, where they ...

  7. The Memo: Populist rage comes to forefront in reaction to ...

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    From a political standpoint, President-elect Trump is the most obvious beneficiary of those populist sentiments, winning two elections out of three despite being subject to frequent, loud derision ...

  8. Marion Butler - Wikipedia

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    As a United States Senator, Butler continued to advocate for workable reforms from the Populist Party Platform, including the regulation or outright ownership by the United States Government of railroads and telegraphs, as well as for a silver-based currency system. [3]

  9. James B. Weaver - Wikipedia

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    The Republican Party's popularity after the victory in the Spanish–American War led Weaver, for the first time, to doubt that populist values would eventually prevail. [149] With the demise of the Populist Party, Weaver became a Democrat and was a delegate to the 1904 Democratic National Convention. [149]