Politician/Stewart Jefferson

Stewart C. Jefferson (1852-) was born in California. He grew up when the American Civil War was occurring. After losing his older brother to the war, Jefferson went to college to become a doctor. After gaining his medical degree in the early 1870's, he became a surgeon. He was a surgeon until 1886, when after seeing laws he didn't like during Grover Cleveland's Presidency, he ran for a House of Representatives seat in California and won. In 1892, he became a Republican Senator from California. In 1904, after William McKinley's Presidency, Jefferson ran for the Republican Nomination and won. He ran against Democrat Howard Gifford, a New York Lawyer, in the 1904 Presidential Election.