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28 de feb. de 2018 · William Jennings Bryan, born on March 19, 1860 in Salem, Illinois, was the dominant politician in the Democratic Party from the late 19 th century to the early 20 th century. He was nominated for the presidency three times, and his populist leanings and tireless stumping transformed political campaigning in this country. In 1925 he led the successful prosecution in the Scopes Monkey Trial ...
29 de may. de 2018 · 7 William Jennings Bryan. Undelivered Closing Statement from the Scopes Trial Published in 1925. The 1920s was a period of great change in the United States, and the changes made some people uncomfortable.The clash between traditional values, especially religious fundamentalism (a strict form of Christianity based on the belief that the events in the Bible are true, rather than stories told to ...
William Jennings Bryan. (Salem, 1860 - Dayton, 1925) Político estadounidense. Líder del Partido Demócrata, fue derrotado sucesivamente por los candidatos republicanos en las elecciones presidenciales de los años 1896, 1900 y 1908. Como secretario de Estado bajo la presidencia de Thomas Woodrow Wilson, fue el responsable del Tratado Bryan ...
Rise to Prominence. Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois on March 19, 1860. He graduated from Illinois College in 1881 (A.M. 1884), and from the Union College of Law in 1883. He was admitted to the Illinois State Bar in 1883 and practiced law in Jacksonville, Illinois prior to moving to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1887.
The most famous speech in American political history was delivered by William Jennings Bryan on July 9, 1896, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The issue was whether to endorse the free coinage of silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1. (This inflationary measure would have increased the amount of money in circulation ...
William Jennings Bryan (Salem , 19 maart 1860 – Dayton , 26 juli 1925) was een Amerikaans advocaat en politicus. Hij was voor de Democratische Partij driemaal presidentskandidaat (1896, 1900 en 1908), maar wist nooit de verkiezingen te winnen. Van 1913 tot ...
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 ...
