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Nominées of the Convention Biographical Sketches
Biographies of William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Ewing Stevenson trace their origins, early lives, and political rise. The Bryan narrative covers his Virginia and Illinois roots, Lincoln home in Nebraska, congressional career, 1896 presidential nomination, and Lincoln residence. Stevenson’s Kentucky birth, Illinois education, legal career, and Senate and vice presidential roles are outlined.
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William Jennings Bryan
Silas L. Bryan
Culpepper
Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
Illinois
Salem
Egypt
William Jenings Bryan
Silas Bryan
Mariah E. Jennings
Marion County
Bryan
Marion Coun
W. J. Bryan
Broadway
Selem
Elder Bryan
Judge Bryan
Billy” Bryan
Bryan Sed
Mr. Bryan
Illinois College
Jacksonville
William Springer
Chicago
Union College of Law
Lyman Trumbull
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
A. R. Talbot
Congress
W. J. Connell
Omaha
Washington
Crisp
Ways and Means
Clining
Edwards
United States
Thurston
South
Bryans
Ruth
William J., Jr
Grace
Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Christian County
Kentucky
Bloomington
Ill
Center College
Danville
Sinola Wesleyan University
Twenty-Third
Cleveland
United States Senate