William Jennings Bryan - Secretary of State, USA, making a speech, presidential campaign, 1908.he was a democrat. In 1912 he became secretary of state underWoodrow Wilson, Advocating neutrality, he resigned over the Lusitania sinking crisis. In the Scopes Darwin evolutionary trial he was prosecution lawyer, was subject to devastating cross examination by Clarence Darrow, won and died a week later 26 july 1925.