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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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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.
Gen. James B. Weaver at various times had been a Democrat, a Republican, a three-term U.S. representative and the presidential candidate of the short-lived Greenback Party.
The party fielded presidential candidate James B. Weaver (See Weaver) in the election of 1892 and garnered 8.5 percent of the vote, carrying Idaho, Kansas, Colorado, and Nevada. The inaugural platform reprinted here was formally adopted at the party’s first national nominating convention in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 4, 1892.
James Weaver is President of Point Grey Pictures (PGP), a multi-genre film and television production company founded by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.
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Sep 1, 2002 · The Civil War's Last Campaign: James B. Weaver, the Greenback-Labor Party,&the Politics of Race&Section. By Mark A. Lause. (Lanham: University Press of America, 2001. viii, 246 pp. $33.00, ISBN 0-7618-1917-7.) Third parties have contested virtually every national election in American history.
James B. Weaver helped found the People's Party in 1891, a group commonly known as the "Populists." Weaver was a politician and a large part of the Greenback movement. He successfully ran for Congress in 1884 and was re-elected in 1886, serving from 1885 to 1889.
