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.
Portrait by Mathew Brady, 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.
The Greenback Party was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active from 1874 to 1889. The party ran candidates in three presidential elections, in 1876, 1880 and 1884, before it faded away.
A $5 United States Note of the series of 1862 popularly known as a "greenback" from the color of ink used on the reverse
Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, was a leading exponent of so-called "greenback" currency during the American Civil War
Contemporary news illustration of a run on the 4th National Bank of New York during the Panic of 1873
Peter Cooper of New York, presidential candidate of the Greenback Party.