The William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home is located in Salem, Illinois, the county seat of Marion County. William Jennings Bryan is noted as a three-time Democratic Party nominee for president. The Home has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1975. It, along with the Badollet House and Bachmann House, makes up fifty percent of the listed Historic Places in Marion County.
The city of Salem operates the home as a museum, including information and memorabilia about Bryan, his politics and his times. The house features two main rooms in the front, a kitchen and a dining room in back, and three bedrooms upstairs.
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“For me, poetry is always a search for order.”
—Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)
“Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I looked at my daughters, and my boyhood picture, and appreciated the gift of parenthood, at that moment, more than any other gift I have ever been given. For what person, except one’s own children, would want so deeply and sincerely to have shared your childhood? Who else would think your insignificant and petty life so precious in the living, so rich in its expressiveness, that it would be worth partaking of what you were, to understand what you are?”
—Gerald Early (20th century)
“At home you always have to be a politician. When you’re abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.”
—Harold MacMillan (1894–1986)