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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: William Jennings Bryan, Ben Nelson, Charles Edward Magoon, Ted Sorensen, George W. Norris, Mike Johanns, Henry Clarke, Moses Kinkaid, David Karnes, Howard M. Baldrige, Phineas Hitchcock, Roman Hruska, Kermit Brashear, Hal Daub, Lee Terry, J. Lee Rankin, Carl Curtis, Don Stenberg, Peter Hoagland, John Mellen Thurston, Norris Brown, Charles F. Manderson, George de Rue Meiklejohn, Elmer Burkett, Robert B. Crosby, Edward R. Burke, Jon Bruning, Robert G. Simmons, Charles Thone, Albert W. Jefferis, Monroe Hayward, Samuel Maxwell, Jon Lynn Christensen, Robert Vernon Denney, Cynthia H. Milligan, Eugene D. O'Sullivan, John Joseph Cavanaugh III, Hiram Kinsman Evans, John L. Kennedy, David Henry Mercer, John A. Maguire, Eugene Jerome Hainer, Charles Henry Sloan, Roderick Dhu Sutherland, George Washington Emery Dorsey, Mike Boyle, Turner M. Marquette, William James Connell, William Ledyard Stark, William Irvin Swoope, Edmund H. Hinshaw, John Taffe, James Laird, John McCarthy, Robert Van Pelt, C. Frank Reavis, George H. Heinke, Walter Lyndon Pope, James Moeller. Excerpt: William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 - July 26, 1925) was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States (1896, 1900 and 1908). He served in the United States Congress briefly as a Representative from Nebraska and was the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1916. Bryan was a devout Presbyterian, a supporter of popular democracy, an enemy of gold, banks and railroads, a leader of the silverite movement in the 1890s, a peace advocate, a prohibitionist, and an opponent of Darwinism on religious grounds. With his deep, commanding voice and wide travels, he was one of ...
