William Laury Greene was a Nebraska

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 Populist

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 politician

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Greene was raised in Dubois County, Indiana

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. He graduated from the Ireland Academy, taught school and studied law. He passed his bar

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 exam in 1876 and began his practice in Bloomington, Indiana

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. He moved with his family again to Kearney, Nebraska

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Kearney is a city in and the county seat of Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 30,787 at the 2010 census. It is home to the University of Nebraska-Kearney....

 in 1883 and continued to practice law.

Greene ran for the United States Senate

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 in 1893 against William V. Allen

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William Vincent Allen was a jurist and twice a U.S. Senator from Nebraska.Allen was born in Midway, Ohio. He moved with his parents to Iowa in 1857, where he attended the common schools and Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa...

 and lost. He became a judge

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 of the 12th judicial district of Nebraska from 1895 to 1897. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives

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 in 1896 as a Populist and served until his death at age 49. He is interred in Kearney Cemetery.

William Neville

William Neville

William Harriman Neville was a Nebraska, United States Populist politician.-Biography:He was born in Nashville, Illinois. He moved with his parents to Chester, Illinois in 1851. Graduated from McKendree University and served as a sergeant in Company H of the 142nd regiment of the Illinois...

 succeeded Greene.