william jennings bryan

If Bryan had been elected President in 1896, would the Spanish-American War still have occurred? I have a few specific questions on whether it would turn out the same or would it take a different course. I’ve read a couple of older timelines about a Bryan presidency and they seemed to gloss...

Yesterday I posted a map about the rise of a socialist party in the United States. After getting some feedback from there and other places I concluded that while I'm satisfied with my PoD and events that happen in the USA, I'm not so happy with how I handled the rest of the world. I guess I was...

The land that presently constitutes Lancaster County was widely disregarded as arid and unusable by civilization until shockingly recently. Apart from infrequent expeditions, the white man did not deem the floodplains of the Salt Creek to be meriting further development; the “Great American...

What if the Republican Party had become the bastion of liberal, center-left values, while the Democrats took on a conservative, populist center-right to right-wing ideology?

IOTL, President Grover Cleveland holds the distinction of being the only man to be President twice, as he was first elected in 1884, then defeated narrowly in 1888, before coming back in 1892. He lost in 1888 because he failed to hold two extremely narrow and competitive swing states, Indiana...

So let’s say that somehow someway Grover Cleveland wins re-election over Benjamin Harrison in the 1888 Presidential Election. 1892 rolls around and William McKinley is elected Presidency. The Panic of 1893 still happens (unless a second Cleveland term would have prevented it) causing the...

Could he continue with the Populist's Momentum, how well does he do? Do the Populists survive?

So something that I wonder is if Benjamin Harrison winning in 1892 would result in a Populist Democrat winning the 1896 Election. How likely is that to happen? A Populist administration (if it happens) sounds pretty interesting, what would its policies be on trade, immigration and civil rights?

William Jennings Bryan somehow gets assassinated during his inauguration, and makes way for inexperienced vice president Arthur Sewall. What would Sewall's presidency be like?

As the question states above, What would had if William Jenngs Bryan won 1896, Who would win the Republican nomination in 1900? Would the Spanish-American War still happen? Would Hawai'i get annexed or delayed for a few years?

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In 1888, Democratic President Grover Cleveland lost re-election to Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison. While he would reclaim the White House in 1892, the closeness of the 1888 election (all Cleveland needed was 15,000 more votes in the state of New York) and the eventual political emergence...

It was a February evening and Teddy Roosevelt the popular progressive president stood on the stage, his cheery demeanor as bright as ever and his mustache as vibrant as the sun. He gave a hardy laugh before continuing his speech. “I am glad that we were able to achieve a great electoral reform...

In 1904, after Theodore Roosevelt's landslide election to a full term, journalists pressed the young President over whether or not he would run again in 1908. Roosevelt dodged their questions and continued to do so until 1908, when he announced his bid for a second full term. Roosevelt's critics...

In this poll, you're provided with losing candidates from 1900 to 2012 who were nominated by the two major American political parties but never became President. Candidates who did at one point lose but then came back to win, such as Richard Nixon, or candidates who won once but lost a second...

Inspired by this thread, wherein the subject of American intervention in the Philippines and potential alternatives was brought up... Are there any semi-plausible scenarios for the Philippines to attain independence in the late 1890s or early 1900s? In OTL, Philippine rebellions before the...

With a realistic POD, have William Jennings Bryan win the 1908 Presidential election.

Suppose that Theodore Roosevelt never made his 1904 pledge to not run for a third term, and he runs and wins in 1908. In this scenario, who wins in 1912?

What would a Bryan presidency look like, and how would it impact American history?

Hello AH.com! This is my second attempt at a TL about William Jennings Bryan. I started the other one while over four years ago and I know a lot more about history now than I did then. For me, William Jennings Bryan is one the most fascinating figures in American history and I'm surprised he...