Over a hundred years ago, during The Gilded Age, Democrat William Jennings Bryan stirred real emotion as well. Bryan scared the establishment of the day – far more than Trump is now.

Populists found their greatest spokesman in William Jennings Bryan. He gave a voice to people who were struggling financially while he recognized the social decay afflicting many voters who worked ...

The United States Postal Service recently issued a stamp to honor William Jennings Bryan. The $2 value was a late addition to the Great Americans series and was released with little advance notice.

Democratic nominees for president William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and Arthur Sewall of Maine for vice president were nominated at the Chicago convention on July 10, 1896.

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.

That year, Bryan ran against Republican nominee William McKinley, the former governor of Ohio, and lost. In 1900 and 1908, Bryan again won his party's nomination, but lost both times.

Bryan was known for his eloquent oratory and traveled tirelessly to display it to the nation. In one campaign alone he was said to have logged 18,000 miles via train, striving to reach every ...