The most important figure in the Populist Party was a man named Tom Watson. He was a lawyer from Georgia whose parents had been rich slaveholders who lost everything because of the Civil War. So if you are asking about an individual, he is the one most commonly associated with that party.
If you are asking about who supported the party more broadly, the answer is farmers. The Populist Party drew almost all of its support from farmers in the South and in the West. In the 1892 election, for example, the Populists won Colorado, Kansas, Nevada and Idaho.
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