Born into complete poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired congressman. Nominated for president against his will, he engaged in a fierce battle with the corrupt
He had little political background, but was still a very promising candidate. He was a great commander, he backed his thoughts with force. Although Jackson and Clay had some similar beliefs, they had some very different ideas on how the country should be led. The Democratic party chose Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson feared that democracy could’ve suffered at the hands of development, the opposite was thought by Henry Clay.
Darrow has proven himself to be one of the top defense lawyers in the country; often the underdog, he has defeated the likes of William Jennings Bryan and has defended the innocent. Darrow most notably was able to defend Ossian Sweet when he was accused of murdering a white Klu Klux Klan member. Due to the racial tendencies of the time and place, many thought that Sweet would be convicted and executed, but Darrow was able to prove his client innocent and drop all the charges against ten other African Americans involved in the trial. Charles Dawes has been recognized for the Nobel Peace Prize because of his accomplishments both politically and in the courtroom. Dawes started off in President McKinley’s electoral campaign and ended in the peace talks between France and Germany.
Al Smith Al Smith, who was elected Governor of New York four times and was the Democratic candidate for president in 1928, was an urban leader of the Progressive Movement. As governor in the 1920s he achieved a number of reforms, but he was also linked to the notorious Tammany Hall group that controlled Manhattan politics. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. was born on December 30, 1873 in the Fourth Ward on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father, the son of Italian and German immigrants, anglicized the family name to Smith (In Italian, Ferraro means “smith” or “blacksmith”). His mother, Catherine Mulvihill, was the daughter of Irish immigrants.
Steven Grover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, New Jersey on March 18,1837. Grover Cleveland’s family consisted of his 5 sisters and 3 brothers. He stopped using his first name because he thought Grover sounded more important than Steven. Grover’s father was a minister and taught him religious studies. While information on his mom was not listed.
Smith|1 I. Early life President William Taft was the 27th president of the United States of America. He was the president after Theodore Roosevelt. He was a very intelligent man and accomplished great things throughout his life time.
Debs was especially keen on this Idea due to the fact that he started feeling that capitalism would not be able to help the poor and lower class. The lower class were slowly starting to descend into greater and greater poverty Especially due to the beginnings of a depression preparing to rear its head at the country known as America. Immediately after settling on this idea and after being released from jail, Debs started his road onto the political stage through running for president. He lead the establishment of the socialist party of America and became their candidate. On his first entrance onto the presidential stage, Debs only got a measly 96,000 votes.
US History Test #4 Andrew Jackson was voted into office as a Democrat in 1829. Jackson was a soldier in the military in Florida and had a very successful run in battles. It was known that Jackson almost always had his way. Over his life he even accumulated the nickname “King Mob” meaning he always gets what he wants like a mob.
During the Reconstruction Era, various African-American/Abolitionist leaders came forward to express their thoughts on the role of freedmen in the post-Civil War society. Specifically, two formative figures who portrayed their advocacy were Blanche Bruce and Frederick Douglass. Blanche Bruce, a former slave, was the first African-American to serve a full term in the United States Senate. While serving the Senate, Bruce advocated for the rights of minorities and illustrated the issues of his black constituents. Frederick Douglass, on the other hand, was a prominent leader in the abolitionist movement after escaping slavery.
Douglas, was an important election that would, and did, go down in history. Lincoln had opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, created by Stephen Douglas, which lead him into becoming a Republican. Here, nobody was able to Compromise. He ran against Stephen Douglas, and won the election with getting one hundred eighty electoral votes, and Douglas getting twelve (Southern Democrat Breckinridge seventy-two, and Constitutional Union Bell getting thirty-nine) (Doc H).
William Jennings Brown was a beloved orator and political figure from the 1890’s till his death in the 1925. He was known for his abilities to capture a crowd and keep them enthralled for hours as he talked about anything. From an early age though he knew that he wanted to be like his father, following in his footsteps to the political realm. He made good use of his oratory skills and created a whole new way of running a presidential campaign. He also helped to create the bases for many new ideas that would lead to Franklin Roosevelts, New Deal Plan.
His plans changed when a Republican rival announced his candidacy for Georgia governor, and Carter decided to challenge him. This was a big mistake by Carter. The civil rights movement had created a conservative backlash in the South, ending the Democratic stranglehold on the South. Democrats like Carter was especially vulnerable. Although he campaigned hard, he finished third in the 1966 Democratic primary.
What he did was aid to the process, already under way, of emancipation, by transforming the meaning of the war of "preserving the Union" to the war of liberation. African Americans were critical agents of change both as combatants in the war and as citizens during the Reconstruction that followed. African Americans supported the Republican Party through Union Leagues whose "Radical" members, abolitionists who believed in political equality
During the beginning of the 20th Century American political history was characterized by turbulence in the two party system. There were new parties and political ideals coming to the forefront and beginning to be supported in a mainstream way including the birth of a rural farmer based party in 1892 called the Populist Party (Flamm, Sept. 2). There were many different political battles being fought across the country with the uprising of unions and many workers trying to create a more fair and safe working environment, these unions and their strikes gave Eugene Debs an entrance to the political world that he would use to become one of the most successful third party candidates in U.S. history as well as the premiere American Socialist. Eugene
Andrew Jackson’s victory in the presidential election against John Quincy Adams in 1828 would bring about the “common man era” in America. This was a time during the Jacksonian Democracy that promoted the common man, states’ rights and strict construction. For the first time in the United States history, a man born in humble circumstances (who did not have a college education) from west of the Appalachian Mountains, was now President. In the past, politicians had been elected because of their social status due to their family background, wealth and education.
