William Jennings Bryan and Teddy Roosevelt are two of the more famous American populists.
In the age of bosses, that used to be routine: Nixon, Stevenson, Dewey, William Jennings Bryan.
Is Grassley jealous of private equity riches, in the manner of prairie populists from William Jennings Bryan onward?
William Jennings Bryan was a liberal Democrat, a prohibitionist Presbyterian preacher, and an advocate of a silver-based currency.
You have to go back to William Jennings Bryan to find a Democrat nominee from truly west of the Mississippi.
Mr Weisman rescues the reputations of William Jennings Bryan and his populist supporters, whom the respectable classes denounced as extremists.
Examples range from William Jennings Bryan, a Populist presidential aspirant, to Huey Long, and presently to John Edwards and Mike Huckabee.
The 1896 Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ran against deflation, which he blamed on the gold standard and perfidious Republican bankers.
William Jennings Bryan campaigned unsuccessfully three times as the Democratic presidential candidate.
In 1896, William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic national convention in Chicago with his speech denouncing supporters of the gold standard.
Thousands of such passionate speeches -- millions more passionate words -- were uttered by names now brown with history: William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Nation, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
It took some searching to find a single precedent, William Jennings Bryan, a pacifist who had resigned as secretary of state in 1915 because he believed American policy favoured joining the war in Europe.
"I invoke him for the notion that capitalists understand when the market needs to be tamed, " he said, specifically aligning himself with the early 20th century Progressive movement rather than the more radical Populists represented by William Jennings Bryan.
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In the great Front Porch Campaign of 1896, William Jennings Bryan engaged in the first modern presidential campaign, complete with modern campaign tactics, traveling around the country, giving over 600 speeches, on the clear premise that he was pursuing the position.
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