McCants Stewart, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMcCants Stewart
American lawyer
Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1877
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Date of Death: 14-Apr-1919
Profession: lawyer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About McCants Stewart
- McCants Stewart (July 11, 1877 – April 14, 1919) was an American lawyer.
- Born to a prominent attorney in New York, Stewart studied law in Minnesota and became the first African American lawyer in the state of Oregon.
- His lack of financial success in Oregon led him to eventually move to San Francisco, where failing vision led him to commit suicide.
- Living in the era of Plessy v.
- Ferguson and "separate but equal" doctrine, his life was said to "reflect an unyielding commitment to the principle of justice for all powerless people in the northwest."
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