Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1892. In the fourth rematch in American history, the Democratic nominee, former president Grover Cleveland, defeated the incumbent
Stephen Grover Cleveland Portrait
Pach Brothers Benjamin Harrison
James B. Weaver 1892
Benjamin Harrison, the incumbent president in 1892, whose term expired on March 4, 1893
James B. Weaver
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James Baird Weaver 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. He joined the Republican
1892 United States presidential election
…Jackson. Groups from The Grange and the Knights of Labor joined to form a new party called the Populist Party. It had a ticket led by former congressman James B. Weaver of Iowa. The campaign centered mainly on economic issues, especially the protectionist 1890 McKinley Tariff. Cleveland ran on a platform of lowering…
Portrait c. 1870–1880
Weaver's home, built in 1867 in Bloomfield
Thomas Nast depicts Weaver as an ungainly donkey who is finally recognized by Speaker Samuel J. Randall.
An 1880 cartoon in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ridicules the Greenback party as a collection of disparate radicals.