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Apr 15, 2024 · Republican Party. Role In: Greenback movement. Populist Movement. James B. Weaver (born June 12, 1833, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.—died Feb. 6, 1912, Des Moines, Iowa) was an American politician who leaned toward agrarian radicalism; he twice ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency, as the Greenback-Labor candidate (1880) and as the Populist ...
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James and Clara Weaver in 1908. The Republican Party's popularity after the victory in the Spanish–American War led Weaver, for the first time, to doubt that populist values would eventually prevail. With the demise of the Populist Party, Weaver became a Democrat and was a delegate to the 1904 Democratic National Convention.
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Introduction. James B. Weaver (1833–1912) was a prominent and well-respected member of the Populist Party. A brevet brigadier general in the Civil War, a lawyer, and an agrarian reformer, Weaver represented Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives and was twice a presidential nominee, running in 1880 under the Greenback Party banner and as a ...
Advocating the interests of farmers and the working classes, the party found particular support in the southern and western United States. The party fielded presidential candidate James B. Weaver (See Weaver ) in the election of 1892 and garnered 8.5 percent of the vote, carrying Idaho, Kansas, Colorado, and Nevada.
Urged on by James B. Weaver (see A Call to Action), the Populists understood that electoral success was far more likely with Bryan than with a third-party candidate. Many feared that running a Populist candidate would only split the free silver vote and hand the presidency to the Republicans.
The People’s Party nominated James B. Weaver, a former US representative from the state of Iowa, as its candidate in the 1892 presidential election.
Populist candidates won gubernatorial elections in nine states and gained some forty-five seats in the US Congress, including six seats in the Senate, and in 1892 the Populist presidential candidate, James B. Weaver of Iowa, received over a million votes, more than 8 percent of the total.
