Richard Brace of Jefferson.
Richard Brace was the Governor of Jefferson in the 1930s. In the 1938 Mexican elections he contested the United Mexican Party's presidential nomination with former President Pedro Fuentes. Like Fuentes, Brace was considered a peace candidate and had substantial backing. Brace won the nomination on the fifth ballot.
Sobel states that there is evidence that John Jackson of Kramer Associates subsidized the U.M.P. in the campaign, hoping to defeat the incumbent, Liberty Party candidate Alvin Silva. Sobel implies that Jackson's influence allowed Brace to win the nomination over Fuentes, who had long opposed K.A.'s influence in the U.S.M., and that Fuentes would have run better against Silva. With war looming, however, Silva was seen as the better man by the voters, and defeated Brace by 15,677,398 votes to 13,233,365, or 54% to 46%.