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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—NebraskaWilliam Jennings BRYAN
(1860-1925)
BRYAN, William Jennings,
(father of Ruth Bryan Owen), a Representative from Nebraska; born
in Salem, Marion County, Ill., March 19, 1860; attended the public
schools and Whipple Academy, Jacksonville, Ill.; was graduated from
Illinois College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1881; studied law at Union
College in Chicago; was graduated in 1883 and commenced practice at
Jacksonville, Ill., in 1883; moved to Lincoln, Nebr., in 1887 and
continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the
Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891-March 3,
1895); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1894;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1894; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1896,
1904, 1912, 1920, and 1924; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
President in 1896, 1900, and 1908; was endorsed by the Populist and
Silver Republican Parties in the first and second campaigns; during
the Spanish-American War raised the Third Regiment, Nebraska
Volunteer Infantry, in May 1898 and was commissioned colonel;
established a newspaper, “The Commoner,” at Lincoln,
Nebr., in 1901; engaged in editorial writing and delivering
Chautauqua lectures; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President
Wilson and served from March 4, 1913, until June 9, 1915, when he
resigned; resumed his former pursuits of lecturing and writing;
established his home in Miami, Fla., in 1921; died while attending
court in Dayton, Tenn., July 26, 1925; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
Bibliography
Bryan, William Jennings, and Mary Baird Bryan. Memoirs of
William Jennings Bryan, by Himself and his Wife. 2 vols. 1925.
Reprint. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1971; Kazin, Michael.
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan.. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2006; ; Koenig, Louis W. Bryan: A Political
Biography of William Jennings Bryan. New York: Putnam,
1971.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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