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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.
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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Jun 30, 2018 · James Baird Weaver, the son of a farmer, was born in Dayton, Ohio, on 12th June, 1833. After graduating from Cincinnati Law School and established himself as a lawyer in Bloomfield, Iowa. He became involved in the anti-slavery movement after reading Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
James B. Weaver (1833–1912) was a prominent and well-respected member of the Populist Party. A brevet brigadier general in the Civil War, a lawyer, and an agrarian reformer, Weaver represented Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives and was twice a presidential nominee, running in 1880 under the Greenback Party banner and as a Populist in ...
Fred Emory Haynes wrote an early biography, James Baird Weaver (1919), which, while still useful today, scarcely resolved all the issues of this controversial Iowan, and its style, relying on long quotations from contemporary newspapers, of-ten provided more the flavor than an analysis of the period’s politics.
Quick Reference. (1833–1912) U.S. soldier, congressman, and politician. Born in Dayton, Ohio, James Baird Weaver established a legal practice in Bloomfield, Iowa a few years before the Civil War.
Summary: The biography of James Baird Weaver, a two-time presidential candidate and a three term member of Congress. His life is told from his childhood move with his family from Ohio to Iowa, to his enlisting into the Civil War, and finally to his leadership of the Greenback Party.
