presidential nominees. Giuliani may have chosen the 100-year time frame to invoke the memory of William Jennings Bryan, who won the Democratic nomination three times between 1896 and 1908 with only four years in the House of Representatives as experience. He was 36 at the time of his first presidential nomination. In 1904, the Democrats skipped over Bryan and nominated Alton B. Parker, who had no experience in national politics and served as chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. (He ...