Hardy Brian

Hardy L. Brian (1865–1949) was a newspaper publisher and populist political party leader in Louisiana.[1][2] He published the Winnfield Comrade in Winnfield, Louisiana. A leader in the Populist Party in Louisiana,[3] he also established the Louisiana Populist newspaper in 1894 in Natchitoches. He closed it on March 9, 1899, returned to Winn Parish, and became a civic and church leader. He purchased the Winnfield Times in 1916 and edited it for two years.[4]

References

  1. ^ Hair, William Ivy (1969). Bourbonism and Agrarian Protest: Louisiana Politics, 1877–1900. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807102060 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Sipress, Joel (2008). "A Narrowing of Vision: Hardy L. Brian and the Fate of Louisiana Populism". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 7 (1): 43–67. doi:10.1017/S1537781400001729. JSTOR 25144508. S2CID 163650688.
  3. ^ Barnes, Donna A. (2011). The Louisiana Populist Movement, 1881–1900. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807137277 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Louisiana Populist | LSU Libraries". www.lib.lsu.edu.