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William Jennings Bryan

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Noun

1. boy orator of the platte, bryan, great commoner, william jennings bryan

United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

William Jennings Bryan

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American lawyer and politician who campaigned unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1896, 1900, and 1908. He is famous for his impassioned "Cross of Gold" speech advocating free silver (1896) and for his defense of fundamentalism in the Scopes trial (1925).

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