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Stewart, William Morris

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Stewart, William Morris (1827–1909)

US lawyer and public official. He made a fortune in legal fees by representing the successful claimants to the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, and went on to serve as Republican US senator from Nevada 1864–75, and 1887–1905. He endorsed Democrat William Jennings Bryan for president in 1896 because Bryan supported a silver standard for currency.

He was born in Goshen, New York. He dropped out of Yale to join the California gold rush in 1850, and after a period of prospecting, he settled down to practise law. He was an early supporter of federal aid to reclaim arid lands for agriculture.



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