Early Political Career
Later Dahlman became a brand inspector for the Wyoming Stock Association at Valentine. Soon he was elected sheriff of Dawes County. In 1885 he became the mayor of Chadron and was elected twice to that office.
While mayor of Chadron, Dahlman formed a friendship with a young, successful lawyer from Lincoln named William Jennings Bryan. For the next several years, the pair maintained contact, with Dahlman raising funds in Chadron for Bryan's 1892 campaign for re-election to Congress. In 1894 Dahlman was a lieutenant in Bryan's re-election campaign. When he became chairman of the Nebraska Democratic Party in 1896, Dahlman used his platform to nominate Bryan to run for President of the United States. He served twice as a Nebraska delegate to Democratic National Conventions in 1892 and 1896.
After declining an offer as the police chief in Omaha in 1896, Dahlman served as Democratic state chairman and helped carry Nebraska for William Jennings Bryan. In 1899 Dahlman was hired by the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha in Omaha.
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