WILLIAM B. COCKRAN
(William Bourke Cockran)
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Opposing his party's presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan: Although McKinley was Bryan's opponent, Cockran followed Bryan on the campaign trail campaigning against him. The Republican leader Mark Hanna credited Cockran more for putting McKinley in the White House than all the Republican orators put together.
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William Bourke Cockran, commonly known as Bourke Cockran or Burke Cochran in contemporary reports, was an Irish-American politician and orator. He served as a United States Representative from the East Side of Manhattan for seven terms.