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November 14th, 2012, 02:46 AM
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#1 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2012 From: Between a rock and a hard place Posts: 1,547 | Favourite defeated presedential candidates pre 1945
I have a huge interest in William Jennings Bryan. | | | 
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November 14th, 2012, 03:48 AM
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#2 | | Historian
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November 14th, 2012, 03:51 AM
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November 14th, 2012, 07:02 AM
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#4 | | Epicurean
Joined: Mar 2009 From: Texas Posts: 23,898 |
Jefferson in 1796
Adams in 1800
Jackson in 1824
Henry Clay in 1832 and in 1844 
George McClellan in 1864
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November 14th, 2012, 08:30 AM
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Joined: Mar 2008 From: On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yea...I win!! Posts: 10,930 |
I've always had an attraction to John Frémont's bumper sticker.
"Free speech, free press, free soil, free men, Frémont and victory!"
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November 14th, 2012, 09:06 AM
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#6 | | Historian
Joined: Jun 2012 From: At present SD, USA Posts: 1,403 |
William Jennings Bryan is a fairly popular figure as he remained a popular and "powerful" figure dispite all the elections he lost.
One could also give a similar argument for Eugene V. Debbs. An American Socialist who ran five times, and the last time was from a prison cell.
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November 14th, 2012, 10:59 AM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2012 From: Between a rock and a hard place Posts: 1,547 |
I discovered Bryan via the Scopes trial, fascinating charachter.
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November 14th, 2012, 11:12 AM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Dec 2011 From: United States Posts: 1,494 |
Henry Clay, the greatest American never to become President (that ran).
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November 14th, 2012, 01:16 PM
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#9 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2011 From: Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, West Wales. Posts: 1,993 |
I recently bought Michael Kazin's "A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan" (2006). I bought this used book on Amazon and couldn't believe it had been marked "Discarded" by Clark County Public Library, Springfield, Ohio. Hope nothing of the kind would happen in Nebraska. Man was a giant and would have made a good president.
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November 14th, 2012, 02:43 PM
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#10 | | Southern Unionist
Joined: Aug 2010 From: VA Posts: 5,256 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam-Nary  William Jennings Bryan is a fairly popular figure as he remained a popular and "powerful" figure dispite all the elections he lost.
One could also give a similar argument for Eugene V. Debbs. An American Socialist who ran five times, and the last time was from a prison cell. | Hard to disagree with Debs in my mind, but I think Huey Long merits a mention here. A really controversial figure with undeniable appeal and vision, as well as immense ambition. Of course, he died before he could be defeated.
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