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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.
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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).
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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 Populist in 1892.
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.
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.
'For example, Haynes argued that Weaver was a consistent supporter of fusion with one or the other of the major political parties throughout his career. Lause rightly shows that was not true, at least during the 1880 campaign. Fred Emory Haynes, James Baird Weaver, in Iowa Biographical Series, ed., Benjamin F. Shambaugh (Iowa City, IA, 1919), 102.
