Charles L. Pearson

Charles Levi Pearson (May 14, 1860 – March 12, 1918) was an American strawberry farmer and Democratic politician from Sauk County, Wisconsin.

As a child, he moved with his family to Greenfield, Sauk County, Wisconsin, where he spent most of the rest of his life.

[1] He attended business school in Janesville, Wisconsin, and then went to work as a railroad telegraph operator.

After four years, he returned to Greenfield and purchased his family's former estate, where he cultivated strawberries for the rest of his life.

At the district convention, he lost the nomination to Ed C. Perkins, who went on to lose the general election.