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The United States presidential election of 1896 was the 28th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday November 3 1896. It climaxed an intensely heated contest in which Republican candidate William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in one of the most dramatic and complex races in American history.The 1896 campaign is often considered to be a realigning election that ended the old Third Party System and began the Fourth Party System.
