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The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896. In his address, Bryan supported "free silver" (i.e. bimetallism), which he believed would bring the nation prosperity.He decried the gold standard, concluding the speech, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hace 6 días · Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan, known both as "the Great Commoner" and the "Boy Orator of the Platte ...
Sin encabezados Figura \(\PageIndex{1}\): William Jennings Bryan, 1896.Biblioteca del Congreso, LC-USZC2-6259. William Jennings Bryan (19 de marzo de 1860—26 de julio de 1925) logró muchas cosas diferentes en su vida: fue un hábil orador, un congresista de Nebraska, tres veces candidato presidencial, secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos bajo Woodrow Wilson y un abogado que apoyó la ...
