Bryan, William Jennings

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1. A political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bryan, claiming to be the candidate of the ordinary American, lost three presidential elections as the nominee of the Democratic party, although he gathered substantial votes in the South and West. At the 1896 Democratic national convention, he delivered the much-remembered “Cross of Gold” speech in favor of unlimited coinage of silver and against the gold standard. A fundamentalist in religion, Bryan opposed the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools and assisted in the prosecution at the Scopes trial.

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Bryan, William Jennings, 26; character of, 21, 68; pacifism of, 68, 75, 157; submarine warfare and, 131 ff.; peace efforts of, 144 ff.; resignation of, 151, 155 ff.,

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Bryan, William Jennings, nominated for President, 237; wages vigorous campaign, 238; defeated, 240; colonel in Spanish War, 266; renominated for President, 279; denounces imperialism, 279; again defeated, 280; a lay preacher on political subjects, 305; nominated for Presidency third time, 325; made Secretary of State by Wilson, 338.

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Bryan, William Jennings, negotiates treaty with Nicaragua, 135; with Colombia, 144; refuses to modify neutrality laws at demand of Germany, 182.

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Bryan, William Jennings, American statesman, born in Salem, Illinois; bred to the bar and practised at it; entered Congress in 1890 as an extreme Free Silver man; lost his seat from his uncompromising views on that question; was twice nominated for the Presidency in opposition to Mr McKinley, but defeated; b.

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