John M. Palmer

John McAuley Palmer (September 13, 1817 – September 25, 1900) is an Illinois resident, an American Civil War General who fights for the Union, the 15th Governor of Illinois, and presidential candidate of the National Democratic Party in the 1896 election on a platform to defend the gold standard, free trade, and limited government.

Palmer switches political parties throughout his life, starting out a Democrat.

He becomes in turn an anti-Nebraska Democrat (against state sovereignty on slavery), a Republican, a Liberal Republican, returns to being a Democrat, then ends as a Bourbon Democrat.

He says, "I had my own views. I was not a slave of any party," and adds, "I thought for myself and [have] spoken my own words on all occasions."

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