Who was william jennings bryan?
the first people’s party candidate for president
the democratic candidate for president in 1896
the first leader of the knights of labor organization
the candidate who defeated james
b. weaver in 1892

"The Democratic candidate for president in 1896"

Explanation:

William Jennings Bryan was a prominent American politician and member of the Democratic Party. He was three candidates for the Presidency of the United States, and became Secretary of State.

Bryan was a candidate for the presidency of the United States of America on three occasions: in 1896, 1900 and 1908. In all these presidential elections he was defeated by the candidates of the Republican Party, first by William McKinley (veteran of the Civil War ), and then by William Taft.

The presidential campaigns of Bryan were extremely striking, because in all the occasions that he presented his candidacy I have maintained a high popular support thanks to doctrines and ideas that were supported by broad social strata. Bryan held openly populist ideas resulting from his alliance with the People's Party, and decisively influenced the Democratic Party to abandon laissez-faire principles and partly embrace state interventionism. Meanwhile, I have warned that the growing industrialization of the United States. it was motivated that great masses of individuals of the proletariat and the middle classes were interested in protecting their interests in national politics.