Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.

Their 1892 platform was premised on the following observation: “The conditions which surround us best justify our ...

Populist Party member “Sockless” Jerry Simpson, referred to by well-wishers as the “Sockless Socrates,” won over the voters of Kansas-7 to win three terms in Congress during the 1890s.

Further, from the 1870s to the 1890s, party control of Congress tended to ... Democrats adopted the pro-silver position and nominated a populist firebrand for president, William Jennings Bryan.

In 1890, then-Representative William McKinley ... losing 93 seats to Democrats and the Populist Party. After the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which many economists say worsened the Great ...