American politician (1860–1925)
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Three runs for president, three losses — yet he reshaped American politics from the outside. Bryan turned the stump speech into mass spectacle, reached millions before radio existed, and dragged the Democratic Party left toward progressivism even as the White House stayed out of reach.
Born in Illinois in 1860, Bryan moved to Nebraska and won a House seat in 1890. At the 1896 Democratic convention he delivered his "Cross of Gold" speech, attacking the gold standard and eastern money, and walked out with the nomination at 36 — the youngest major party candidate in U.S. history. He invented the national stumping tour that year, speaking to 5 million people across 27 states, but lost to McKinley. He won the nomination again in 1900, campaigning against American imperialism after serving as a colonel in the Spanish-American War, and lost again. After a party detour in 1904, he r…
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Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor.
And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none?
This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law.
You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole.
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