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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 ...
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 and aided cash-poor and debt-burdened farmers ...
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 ...
Die William M. Jennings Trophy ist eine Eishockey -Trophäe in der National Hockey League (NHL). Sie wird jährlich an den oder die Torhüter mit mindestens 25 Einsätzen vergeben, deren Team in der regulären Saison die wenigsten Gegentreffer kassiert hat. Die Trophäe wurde nach dem Eishockeyfunktionär William M. Jennings benannt, der bis zu ...
William Jennings Bryan stepped off the train at Dayton in July of 1925, ready to fight for a "righteous cause." For thirty years the Great Commoner had been a progressive force in the Democratic ...
William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860–July 26, 1925) accomplished many different things in his life: he was a skilled orator, a Nebraska congressman, a three-time presidential candidate, U.S. secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, and a lawyer who supported prohibition and opposed Darwinism (most notably in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial). In terms of his political career, he won national ...
William Peter Jennings Jr. Obituary. William Jennings Jr, 62, passed away at his home in West Branch on October 13, 2017. Bill was born on August 11, 1955 to William and Helen Jennings and was a lifelong resident of West Branch. He graduated from Ogemaw Heights High School in 1973, then attended Alma College and Duke University Law School ...
