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TIL William Jennings Bryan endorsed Senator Francis Cockrell of Missouri for the 1904 Democratic nomination in expectation of Cockrell losing so badly to Theodore Roosevelt that the Democratic Party would re-nominate him (Bryan) in 1908.

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