Bryan ran for president three times as Democratic Party candidateĪ former member of Congress from Nebraska, Bryan ran for president three times as the Democratic Party’s candidate. During the final years of his life, his defense of Christian fundamentalism in the famous Scopes monkey trial of 1925 clashed with the First Amendment’s prohibition of state sponsorship of religion. William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925) was a prominent progressive politician and American statesman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Image by James Edward Purdy via Wikimedia Commons, public domain) William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), pictured here in 1902, was a prominent progressive politician and American statesman in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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