Horace Boies
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Horace Boies served as the 14th governor of Iowa from 1890 to 1894 as a member of the Democratic Party.
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The 1896 Democratic National Convention, held at the Chicago Coliseum from July 7 to July 11, was the scene of William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic presidential candidate for the 1896
Horace Boies
…sufficient prominence to become involved in national Democratic Party politics, though his campaigns for the presidential nomination at the 1892 and 1896 Democratic National Conventions were unsuccessful as was his last political campaign, in 1902, for Democratic nomination for a Congressional seat from Iowa. Following his retirement…
The convention was held at the Chicago Coliseum
Seating arrangement for delegates at the convention
Newspaper Publisher John R. McLean of Ohio
Senator John W. Daniel of Virginia