member_of_political_party charles w. bryan
Lincoln ( pronounced ) is the capital of the U . S . state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County . The city covers with a population of 277 , 348 in 2015 . It is the second - most populous city in Nebraska and the 72nd - largest in the United States . The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the state called the Lincoln Metropolitan and Lincoln - Beatrice Combined Statistical Areas . The statistical area area is home to 345 , 478 people , making it the 105th - largest combined statistical area in the United States . Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28 , 1856  February 3 , 1924 ) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 . Born in Staunton , Virginia , he spent his early years in Augusta , Georgia and Columbia , South Carolina . Wilson earned a PhD in political science at Johns Hopkins University , and served as a professor and scholar at various institutions before being selected as President of Princeton University , a position he held from 1902 to 1910 . In 1910 , he was the New Jersey ___MASK22___ ' s gubernatorial candidate and was elected the 34th Governor of New Jersey , serving from 1911 to 1913 . In the 1912 presidential election , Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican Party to win the presidency , gaining a large majority in the Electoral College and a 42 % plurality of the popular vote in a four  candidate field . He was the first Southerner elected as president since Zachary Taylor in 1848 , and Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement , bolstered by his ___MASK22___ ' s winning control of both the White House and Congress in 1912 . Charles Wayland Bryan ( February 10 , 1867 -- March 4 , 1945 ) was an American politician who served non - consecutive terms as Governor of Nebraska and Mayor of Lincoln , Nebraska , and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924 . He was the younger brother of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan , who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1896 , 1900 , and 1908 . The Bryans are the only brothers who have been nominated for President or Vice President by a major political party . Born in 1867 in Salem , Illinois , Bryan attended both the University of Chicago and Illinois College in Jacksonville . He married Elizabeth Louise Brokaw on November 29 , 1892 . They had three children . Popular democracy is a notion of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of ___MASK24___ . The concept evolved out of the political philosophy of Populism , as a fully democratic version of this popular empowerment ideology , but since it has become ___MASK69___ of it , and some even discuss if they are antagonistic or unrelated now ( see Values ). Though the expression has been used since the 19th century and may be applied to English Civil War politics , at least the notion ( or the notion in its current form ) is deemed recent and has only recently been fully developed . The governor of Nebraska holds the " supreme executive power " of the state of Nebraska as provided by the fourth article of the . The current governor is Pete Ricketts , a Republican , who assumed office on January 8 , 2015 . The current Lieutenant Governor is Mike Foley , who assumed office on January 8 , 2015 . John Peter " Pete " Ricketts ( born August 19 , 1964 ) is the 40th and current Governor of the U . S . state of Nebraska , and the former chief operating officer of Ameritrade . He was the Republican nominee for the 2006 U . S . Senate race in Nebraska , which he lost to incumbent Ben Nelson . He ran for governor of Nebraska in the 2014 election , this time defeating the ___MASK22___ ' s nominee , Chuck Hassebrook . He was inaugurated as governor on January 8 , 2015 . ___MASK92___ was a major policy issue in late 19th - century American politics . Its advocates were in favor of an inflationary monetary policy using the " free coinage of silver " as opposed to the deflationary gold standard . Its supporters were " Silverites ". The Silverites promoted bimetallism , the use of both silver and gold as currency at the ratio of 16 to 1 ( 16 ounces of silver would be worth 1 ounce of gold ). Because the actual value ratio was about 32 to 1 at the time , most economists warned that the cheaper silver would drive the more expensive gold out of circulation . Everyone agreed that ___MASK92___ would raise prices ; the question was whether or not this inflationary measure would be beneficial . The issue peaked from 1893 to 1896 , when the economy was in a severe depression  called the Panic of 1893  characterized by falling prices ( deflation ), high unemployment in industrial areas , and severe distress for farmers . William Jennings Bryan ( March 19 , 1860  July 26 , 1925 ) was an American orator and politician from Nebraska , and a dominant force in the populist wing of the ___MASK22___ , standing three times as the Party ' s nominee for President of the United States ( 1896 , 1900 , and 1908 ). He served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska and was United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson ( 1913  1915 ). He resigned because of his pacifist position on World War I . Bryan was a devout Presbyterian , a strong advocate of popular democracy , and an enemy of the banks and the gold standard . He demanded " Free Silver " because he believed it undermined the evil " Money Power " and put more cash in the hands of the common people . He was a peace advocate , a supporter of Prohibition , and an opponent of Darwinism on religious and humanitarian grounds . With his deep , commanding voice and wide travels , he was perhaps the best - known orator and lecturer of the era . Because of his faith in the wisdom of the common people , he was called " The Great Commoner ". A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the United States of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a ___MASK35___ with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ).