William Jennings Bryan delivers a campaign speech, circa 1910. Bryan put himself on the map as one of America's best orators with his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.

When Democrat William Jennings Bryan received word of the results of the 1896 presidential election, he promptly dispatched a telegram to his opponent, Republican William McKinley.

Perhaps the most important context fell by the journalistic wayside. No one adequately noted the "scope" of William Jennings ...

August 12, 1908 - Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Lincoln on Aug. 12, ...

W illiam Jennings Bryan gave one of the most important speeches in American political development 125 years ago today — on July 9, 1896. The Nebraskan’s “ Cross of Gold Speech ” is a ...

William Jennings Bryan had won the case, but history would not look kindly on his last crusade. The Scopes trial would cast a long shadow over his remarkable career.

He was only 36. Bryan lost to William McKinley then ran for president and lost twice more, in 1900 to McKinley again and in 1908 to Theodore Roosevelt's candidate, William H. Taft.

Nominated for president, Bryan made 525 speeches by Election Day, railing against “those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak ...

William Jennings Bryan, former presidential candidate and former secretary of state, was in town to speak at the Hillyard Chautauqua, the Spokane Daily Chronicle reported July 10, 1919.