Luman Hamlin Weller was a United States Greenback Party member. In the 1880s, he served a single term in the United States House of Representatives as a representative of Iowa's 4th congressional district, then in rural northeastern Iowa. Once elected, he became nationally known as "Calamity" Weller, and did not survive his next election. He later went on to become one of the leading Populists in Iowa.
Luman Hamlin Weller
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.