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William Jennings Bryan was born in rural Salem, Illinois, in 1860.His father, Silas Bryan, was a Jacksonian Democrat, judge, lawyer, and local party activist. [1] As a judge's son, the younger Bryan had ample opportunity to observe the art of speechmaking in courtrooms, political rallies, and at church and revival meetings.
The national popular vote was rather close, as McKinley defeated Bryan by 602,500 votes, receiving 51% to Bryan's 46.7%: a shift of 53,000 votes in California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oregon would have won Bryan the election despite McKinley winning the majority of the popular vote, but due to the joint Democratic-Populist ticket, this also would ...
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician. He was a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections.
There was also fear that if Bryan were elected the nation would split as severely as it had in 1861 after the election of Abraham Lincoln, [4] and Archbishop Ireland pointed out that Bryan’s election might create class war. For these reasons, Bryan was able to carry only the rural Scandinavian-American counties in the Red River Valley and the ...
Elections were held for the 55th United States Congress. Republicans won control of the presidency and maintained control of both houses of Congress. The election marked the end of the Third Party System and the start of the Fourth Party System, as Republicans would generally dominate politics until the 1930 elections.
For the 1896 election, the Democratic Party would aim to fuse with the Populists, and adopted the Populist free silver platform under former Nebraska Representative William Jennings Bryan. [ 3 ] In contrast to the majority of antebellum slave states and despite the majority of the state's economy being an agricultural one revolving around ...
With 82.7% of the popular vote, Utah would prove to be Bryan's fourth strongest state in the 1896 presidential election after Mississippi, South Carolina and Colorado. [5] Bryan would later lose Utah to William McKinley four years later and would lose the state again to Republican William Howard Taft in 1908.
Bryan won the state by a narrow margin of 3.69%. With his win in the state, Bryan became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state of Kansas. Bryan would later lose Kansas to McKinley four years later during their rematch and would later lose the state again to William Howard Taft in 1908.