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- He helped form the Farmers' Alliance—an agrarian reform movement—and when that organization became the Populist party, Weaver ran (1892) as its presidential candidate. He recorded his political views in A Call to Action (1892). Although defeated, he polled more than one million popular and 22 electoral votes.
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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.
Jun 8, 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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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.
Jun 30, 2018 · James Baird Weaver, who was mayor of Colfax, Iowa (1901-1903), died in Des Moines on 6th February, 1912.
OVERVIEW: FULL NAME: James Baird Weaver. BORN: June 12, 1833. Dayton, Ohio. DIED: February 6, 1912 (age 78) Des Moines, Iowa.
This collection is comprised mostly of correspondence between James Baird Weaver and Clara Vinson Weaver, and most of the letters are from the Civil War period. There are a few letters from others in the Weaver family and a copy of a speech Weaver delivered in the House of Representatives.
James Baird Weaver was born in Ohio in 1833. His family moved to Keosauqua in 1842. James became a lawyer in Bloomfield, Iowa and married Clara Vinson in 1858. Weaver rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General while serving with the Second Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
