[Ben Ficklin]

William Jennings Bryan the most notable populist of those times. Compare the Bryan's presidential election maps to recent republican presidential maps and they look very similar.US Election Atlas

Bryan, who was known as the "Great Prairie Populist", was also a cultural populist and prosecuted biology teacher Scopes in the "Scopes Monkey Trial"

Bryan was the forerunner of the modern populist movement in the GOP.

[Borges]

He’s also the architect of modern left wing economic policy isn’t he?