Bentley for President, 1896
In this centennial year of William Jennings Bryan's first campaign for the presidency, his career has been reviewed in an exhibit at the Nebraska History Museum, in ...
William Jennings Bryan
What We Found
Bryan and the Japanese
"Mr. [William Jennings] Bryan's name is better known in Japan than that of any other American," the Omaha Daily News was told on November 13, 1909, by Motosada Zumoto, ...
Bryan and the Russians
During his years in Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan welcomed many foreign visitors to the city and often entertained them at his home, named Fairview. In May of 1907 his ...
Bryan County
Many of Nebraska's ninety-three counties are named in honor of U.S. presidents. More than eighty years ago one enterprising editor proposed creating a new county to be ...
Bryan for President, 1896
Bryan was the only Nebraska resident ever nominated for president by a major party, and also the youngest candidate at the age of thirty-six. Defeated by William ...
Bryan for President in 1920?
Lincoln has seldom been the site of a national political convention, but in July 1920 it hosted such a meeting. "Dry Convention Comes to Order 'to Bury Booze,'" reported ...
Bryan in Florida
Mr. And Mrs. William Jennings Bryan had visited Florida many times before they decided in 1912 to purchase a winter home in Miami. "Villa Serena," as they called it, ...
Bryan in Florida
William Jennings Bryan had visited Florida many times before he purchased a winter home in Miami in 1912. As his national political power and prestige declined after he ...
Bryan Still Popular in Nebraska in 1908
The U.S. presidential election of 1908 was not a close race. Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, chose William ...
Bryan’s Letter to Mary Baird
A letter from William Jennings Bryan to Mary Baird, his fiancee, was written on November 21, 1883, from Jacksonville, Illinois, where Bryan had opened a law office. ...
Timeline Tuesday: Campaign Buttons of 1896
Although the hobby of collecting political memorabilia is probably as old as politics, the political campaign button first became important in the presidential election ...
Bryan for President in 1920?
William Jennings Bryan. NSHS RG3198-47 (photograph at left).
Ninety years ago, in the summer of 1920, Lincoln hosted a national political convention, albeit that of a ...
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