Author:William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan
(1860–1925)

William Jennings Bryan

Works

Books

• The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896 (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1896) (transcription project)
• The World's Famous Orations (1906)

Speeches and addresses

• Graduating Oration, Illinois College, June, 1881.
• Valedictory, Illinois College, June, 1881.
• Presentation of "Gray's Elegy", at the close of the final debate for the First Congressional district, 1890.
• The Jury System, February, 1890.
• First Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, February 9, 1893.
• Principal Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, August 16, 1893.
• Third Speech Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 1, 1893.
• Final Protest Against Unconditional Repeal, before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 1, 1893.
• Memorial Day Address, Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D.C., May 30, 1894.
• "Cross of Gold" speech concluding debate on the Chicago Platform, Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 9, 1896.
• "The Law and the Gospel" toast at a banquet held by the St. Paul Methodist Church of Lincoln.
• Counting a Quorum, presented in a session of the Fifth-Third Congress.
• "The Ideal Republic", 1922. (audio of speech on Commons}
• Scopes Monkey Trial Summation (undelivered), Dayton Tennessee, 1925.

Articles about William Jennings Bryan

• "Life of William Jennings Bryan" (1896)
• "Bryan, William Jennings," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

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This author died in 1925, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 98 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.