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Battles/wars. American Civil War. James Baird Weaver (June 12, 1833 – February 12, 1912) was an American politician in Iowa who was a member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States . Born in Ohio, he moved to Iowa as a boy when his family claimed a homestead on the frontier.
Apr 15, 2024 · 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 candidate (1892). Admitted to the bar in 1856, Weaver practiced law in ...
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James B. Weaver, a prominent Populist leader and presidential candidate, published this book in 1892 to expose the evils of plutocracy and advocate radical reforms. He argued that the American people had a Christian duty to overthrow the corrupt system and restore democracy.
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. The inaugural platform reprinted here was formally adopted at the party’s first national nominating convention in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 4, 1892.
May 18, 2018 · James Baird Weaver (1833-1912) was an American political leader of reform movements who twice ran for the presidency. James Baird Weaver was born on June 12, 1833, at Dayton, Ohio. His family soon moved to the virgin prairies of lowa to farm. Weaver attended country schools. When gold was discovered in California, he longed to go west.
Weaver, James Baird. (June 12, 1833–February 6, 1912) –three-term member of Congress, two-time presidential candidate, and Iowa's most prominent Greenback and Populist politician—was born near Dayton, Ohio, to Abram and Susan Weaver. In 1835 the Weavers migrated to Cass County, Michigan, but moved west again less than a decade later ...
important and long standing void related to work on James B. Weaver and the Greenback-Labor Party (GLP). His title encapsulates the overriding theme that neither before nor after the 1880 election did four Civil War generals - James A. Garfield, Winfield S. Hancock, James B. Weaver, and Neal Dow - "face each other in such a clear-cut conflict
