Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
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Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925
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1860-1925
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Epithet: formerly priest
Lawyer, orator, politician, presidential candidate, and secretary of state.
U. S. Congressman, three-time Democratic presidential nominee, secretary of state under Woodrow Wilson, and publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper The Commoner.
William Jennings Bryan Jr., the only son of the famous orator and politician William Jennings Bryan, was born on June 24, 1889 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana and the University of Nebraska, then graduated from the University of Arizona in 1912. Later, he studied law at Georgetown University. After receiving his law degree, Bryan served as assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona from 1915-1920. During the same period he was a Regent of the University of Arizona. In 1921 Bryan moved to Los Angeles and practiced law at the office of Isadore B. Dockweiler. He served as federal commissioner for the San Francisco Exposition of 1939. In 1938 President Roosevelt appointed him Collector of Customs for the port of Los Angeles. His excellent performance led him to be reappointed for four terms. After his retirement in 1953 he lived in Los Angeles. In 1975 he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to be near his two daughters. Bryan died on March 27, 1978.
William Jennings Bryan was editor of The Commoner and Secretary of State from 1913-1915 as well as chief prosecutor in the Scopes "Monkey" trial against Clarence Darrow.
Bryan was a U.S. Congressman, three-time Democratic presidential nominee, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, and publisher and editor of the weekly newspaper, The Commoner.
William Jennings Bryan was born 1860 in Salem, Ill., and died in 1925. He ran unsuccessfully three times as the Democratic candidate for president and was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State from 1913 to 1915.
Lawyer and politician.
Bryan was an American politician.
Epithet: Rector of Kilcronaghan
Author, lawyer, orator, and U.S. representative from Nebraska and secretary of state.
Lawyer, Jacksonville, Illinois, and Lincoln, Nebraska; Nebraska congressman, 1890-1895; journalist, lecturer; unsuccessful candidate for U.S. president, 1896, 1900, 1908; prosecutor, Scopes monkey trial, 1925.
American lawyer, statesman, and orator.
U.S. politician.
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