Bryan, Charles Wayland (1867-1945), was the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States in 1924. He and presidential candidate John W. Davis lost to their Republican opponents, President Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes. He was the brother of William Jennings Bryan, a noted lawyer and Democratic Party leader.
Bryan was born in Salem, Ill. In 1891, he moved to Nebraska, where William was active in politics. William hired him in 1896 as his financial and political adviser. From 1901 to 1923, Charles also managed and edited The Commoner, a newspaper William had founded in Lincoln. Charles’s social concerns won him great respect in Nebraska. He served as governor there from 1923 to 1925 and from 1931 to 1935.
