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William Jennings Bryan 

//**﻿ Who is William Jennings Byran! **// //** In Salem, Illinois on March 19,1860 William Jennings Bryan was born. William’s parents name is Silas Lillard Bryan and Mariah Elizabeth (Jennings) Bryan. William ‘s mother was of the English heritage. Mariah joined the Salem Baptists in 1872. So William attend the Methodist services on Sunday morning. In the afternoon William also attend the Baptist services. At the age 14, William attended a revival and was baptized. William joined soon joined the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. William’s father Silas, of the Scotch-Irish and English heritage. He was an avid for Jacksonian Democrat. Silas run and won the election to the the Illinos State Senate, but Silas was defeated when he run for reelection in 1860. He did win election as a state circuit judge, Silas then moved his family to a farm north of Salem in 1866. They were living in a ten bedroom house that was the envy of Marion County. **// //**  William went to college at Illinois college in Jacksonville, then went for union law in Chicago. William had studied law in Jacksonville for several years, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1887 where he planned to start his political career. William’s first political career William (supported J. Sterling Morton for Congress in 1888, but the man who was later to be [|Mr. Cleveland's] Secretary of Agriculture was defeated.... Next time, in 1890, Bryan took the nomination and ran against the same Republican who had so badly defeated Mr. Morton Bryan supported J. Bryan had much better luck. He challenged his adversary to a series of joint debates, and made so brilliant a showing that he carried the district, which had given the Republicans 3,500 majority two years before, by a majority of 6,700 votes.) **// 