Bryan, William Jennings, American statesman, born in Salem, Illinois; bred to the bar and practised at it; entered Congress in 1890 as an extreme Free Silver man; lost his seat from his uncompromising views on that question; was twice nominated for the Presidency in opposition to Mr McKinley, but defeated; (b. 1860).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bruyère * Bryant, William Cullen