Charles Wayland Bryan (10 February 1867-4 March 1945) was the Democratic Governor of Nebraska from 3 January 1923 to 8 January 1925 (succeeding Samuel Roy McKelvie and preceding Adam McMullen) and from 8 January 1931 to 3 January 1935 (succeeding Arthur J. Weaver and preceding Robert Leroy Cochran).
Biography[]
Charles Wayland Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois in 1867, and he worked as a tobacco broker, insurance salesman, farmer, and livestock rancher before moving to Lincoln, Nebraska in 1889 and becoming his brother William Jennings Bryan's secretary. From 1901 to 1923, he served as publisher and associate editor for his brother's newspaper, The Commoner, before serving as Mayor of Lincoln from 1915 to 1917. He also served as Governor from 1923 to 1925, and, in 1924, the conservative easterner John W. Davis chose Bryan as his running mate to win over liberal and western votes. He later served as Governor from 1931 to 1935 and as Mayor of Lincoln from 1935 to 1937, and he retired from politics after a failed 1942 gubernatorial bid and died in 1945.