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18 unusual facts about William Jennings Bryan


Burton Harrison

In 1880, Harrison attended the Democratic convention in Cincinnati where he opposed William Jennings Bryan.

Charles F. Wishart

At the 1923 General Assembly Wishart defeated William Jennings Bryan in the election for Moderator largely on this issue.

Coin, Minnesota

The name "Coin" was suggested by Ole E. Olson, the storekeeper and postmaster, during the William Jennings Bryan Free Silver debate.

Edwards v. Aguillard

Modern American creationism arose out of the theological split over modernist higher criticism and its rejection by the Fundamentalist Christian movement which promoted Biblical literalism and, post 1920, took up the anti-evolution cause led by William Jennings Bryan.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida

They were led by three-time presidential candidate, William Jennings Bryan.

John Roach Straton

During the Scopes Trial when the judge was considering letting scientists testify for the defense, William Jennings Bryan wired Straton to come to Dayton, Tennessee to be a rebuttal witness.

Martin L. Davey

He attending a country fair where he heard the famous "Cross of Gold" speech given by William Jennings Bryan.

Mission, Texas

William Jennings Bryan, presidential candidate and former Secretary of State, lived for a time in Mission

National Register of Historic Places listings in Portage County, Wisconsin

It hosted charity events, theater productions, and speeches by Eugene Debs and William Jennings Bryan.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Richland County, Wisconsin

Contains city offices, meeting rooms, and a 900-seat auditorium, which hosted minstrel shows, concerts, motion pictures, and lectures by William Jennings Bryan and William Howard Taft.

Red Mask Players

Kathryn Randolph, the company's founder and first director, had previously served as a dramatic coach to William Jennings Bryan.

Six Days or Forever?

Reviews of the book praised Ginger's account of the trial as well as his assessment of the shortcomings of both Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan.

Sue K. Hicks

Sue Hicks served as a member of the Scopes Trial prosecution team, although his role was vastly overshadowed by the presence of William Jennings Bryan, an activist and former presidential candidate who had been invited to join the team as a special prosecutor.

Theodore M. Davis

In the winter of 1915 he did not go to Egypt for health reasons and instead rented the Florida home of William Jennings Bryan, then Secretary of State.

William Allen White Cabins

Visitors to the White place included Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams and U.S. presidential candidate and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes.

William Bell Riley

In the early 1920s Riley promoted a vigorous anti-evolutionary campaign in the Northwest and it was Riley's World Christian Fundamentals Association that wired William Jennings Bryan urging him to act as counsel for the association in the Scopes Trial.

William Joel Bryan

Though some may refer to him as W.J. Bryan, a distinction should be made between William Joel Bryan and William Jennings Bryan.

William Sherman Jennings

In addition to his brother, who was a lawyer and state attorney, he was a first cousin to William Jennings Bryan, congressman and three-time Democratic presidential nominee.


Chautauqua, Illinois

Arriving first by packet boat, and later by automobile or the trains that ran by as often as six times a day, the vacationers were entertained, educated, and inspired by such luminaries like William Jennings Bryan, evangelists Sam Jones, Billy Sunday and Gypsy Smith, the Swiss Bell Ringers, John Philip Sousa’s band and "Sunny Jim," reputed to be one of the Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.

Coin's Financial School

The author of the text "Coin", William Hope Harvey, would later go on to aid William Jennings Bryan in his bid for the presidency and would run for the presidency himself in the 1930s.

Coinage Act of 1873

This period is best remembered by the cross of gold speech that was made by William Jennings Bryan at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 6, 1896, in which he expressed his hope that mankind would not be crucified upon a cross of gold.

Frank Frantz

During the course of the campaign, two nationally prominent figures spoke at various locations: Republican presidential nominee William Howard Taft and Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan.

Lyric Opera House

The first public showing of electric cooking in Baltimore took place, as well as hosting speakers like Aimee Semple McPherson, Will Rogers, Richard Byrd, Clarence Darrow, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh and William Jennings Bryan.

M. Hoke Smith

When William Jennings Bryan was selected at the 1896 Democratic National Convention, Smith was in a quandary: could he support the party without supporting the platform?

McClure Newspaper Syndicate

The company lost money during its first few years, eventually turning a profit while distributing and promoting such American authors as George Ade, John Kendrick Bangs, William Jennings Bryan, Joel Chandler Harris, William Dean Howells, Fannie Hurst, Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and Woodrow Wilson.

Randal Cremer

Using his platform as an MP, Cremer cultivated allies on both continental Europe and across the Atlantic, including Frédéric Passy , William Jennings Bryan and Andrew Carnegie.

The Creationists

It first describes early opposition during Darwin's lifetime, then George Frederick Wright's conversion from Christian Darwinist to Fundamentalist opponent and how creationism influenced the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy and the rise of prominent populist creationists such as William Jennings Bryan.

The Great Monkey Trial

Literary quotations are provided at the start of each chapter, for instance, that for "Single Combat", the chapter detailing the cross-examination of William Jennings Bryan by Clarence Darrow, for which de Camp chose a quotation from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass where Alice and the Queen talk about believing impossible things.

Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Some 149 people are listed as subjects in the Cyclopedia, from historical figures before TR's times, like Oliver Cromwell, Frederick the Great, and John Marshall, to Roosevelts's contemporaries, including Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, Mark Hanna, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Pancho Villa, Woodrow Wilson and Booker T. Washington.

Universal Preservation Hall

Originally constructed for the Methodist church to host their annual regional meeting – the Hall has hosted such luminaries as William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ward Beecher, Frederick Douglass, Senator Edgar T. Brackett and President William Howard Taft amongst others.