Populist Party in the United States

Populist (People’s) Party in the U.S. Legal History

Summary

A political party established in 1892 primarily by remnants of the Farrners’ Alliance and Greenback party, it sought to inflate the currency with silver dollars and to establish an income tax but some of its platform was adopted by the Democrats in 1896 and it died out after the defeat of joint candidate William Jennings Bryan.