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Bryan & Gov. Johnson, Sacramento, Calif. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Nathan Adams said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_jennings_bryan

• Richard Norton said:

  Hiram Warren Johnson (September 2, 1866 – August 6, 1945) was a leading American progressive and later isolationist politician from California; he served as Governor from 1911 to 1917, and as a United States Senator from 1917 to 1945. Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiram_Johnson

• The Library of Congress said:

  Thanks, We'll add the additional name information in the source data and reload the description.

• BobMeade said:

  This was taken sometime between the morning of April 29, 1913 and the afternoon of May 3, 1913. On April 29, 1913 Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan arrived in Sacramento at the bidding of President Wilson to plead against the passage of California's Alien Land Law of 1913. That morning at 11am he addressed secret meetings of the legislature with Governor Johnson, Lieutenant Governor Wallace and 120 members of the legislature, according to this New York Times article: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04E3D9173FE633A... Governor Johnson "rallied the anti-Japanese lobby, however, and the bill passed. despite statements by both the President and the Secretary of State that this law offered insult to the Japanses people and their government." ( ref. books.google.com.au/books?id=PKL4DQ4XLtUC&pg=PA45&... ) According to this New York Times article, Bryan addressed a joint session of the California Legislature on the afternoon of May 3, 1913 prior to his departure for Washington: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DEED9173FE633A... The text of Bryan's speech to the California legislature in 1913 is here: www.archive.org/stream/farewellremarks00bryarich and it is therefore likely that the two others in the photograph apart from Bryan and Johnson are Lieutenant Governor Wallace, and or Speaker Young, and/or State Senator Lee C. Gates. Of course, the papers of William Jennings Bryan are in the Library of Congress, so there's likely to be more about this occasion there: lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2006/ms006... Here's an article from the New York Times of April 27, 1913 giving much of the background to Bryan's pending visit to California: query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0DE...

• Barbara (LOC P&P) said:

  The evidence regarding when the photo was made is also helpful. We'll adjust the date in the description, as well. Thanks!