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 ...
William Jennings Bryan
What We Found
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 ...
William Jennings Bryan and a Spanish American War Roster
If you have an interest in William Jennings Bryan’s campaigns, you are in for a treat. The Nebraska History Museum has a wonderful collection of Bryan’s campaign ...
International Religious Leader Visits Nebraska
The Bahá’í Faith was founded by Bahá’u'lláh in 19th-century Persia. `Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas (1844-1921), eldest son of Bahá’í founder Bahá’u'lláh, became the ...
John L. Teeters
John Lewis Teeters was born at Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Albert and Ellen Baker Wood Teeters. In 1886 he graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelors degree. ...
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