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Mary Elizabeth Lease: Populist Reformer
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Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland (1837–1908) was the first Democratic president elected after the Civil War and the only person ever to be elected to non-consecutive terms in office (in 1884 and 1892). A bachelor when he was elected to his first term, he became the first president to be married in the White House when he wed Frances Folsom, a former ward twenty-seven years his junior. He also became the first president to have children while in office. When confronted with the charge that he had fathered a child out of wedlock, Cleveland immediately...
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Henry S. Doyle
Henry S. Doyle (1867–1913) was a Christian minister and a prominent African American Populist born in Georgia and educated at Clarke University and Ohio Wesleyan. Doyle campaigned vigorously for the Populist Party (or People’s Party) Congressional candidate, Tom Watson, in Georgia in 1892, prompting an attempted lynching of Doyle. Two thousand white Populist supporters, however, protected both Doyle and Watson from the potential violence.
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Mary Elizabeth Lease
Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853–1933) was a Populist Party organizer and orator. Lease became recognized in the early 1890s as a Populist Party speaker in Kansas and served as a delegate to the party’s national convention in 1892, where she seconded the presidential nomination of James B. Weaver. She toured with Weaver’s campaign in the West and with other Populist speakers in the South, reportedly urging farmers to “Raise less corn and more hell!” Lease vehemently opposed the Populist Party’s connection to the Democratic Party, and after the...
