Andrew Stewart Sr.

Andrew Stewart (born June 11, 1791 in Uniontown , Pennsylvania , †  July 16, 1872 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1821 and 1849 he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the US House of Representatives three times .

After a good upbringing, Andrew Stewart was a teacher before graduating from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania. He then studied law, was inducted into the bar in 1815, and began practicing in Uniontown. His first political mandate he held from 1815 to 1818 as a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania ; then he was appointed federal attorney for the western district of his state by President James Monroe , which he remained until his resignation in 1820.

On March 4, 1821, he entered the congress for the first time as a member, to which he was a member until March 3, 1829, after being re-elected three times. During this time, Stewart changed party affiliations several times: he completed his first legislative term as a representative of the Democratic Republicans , the second as the Jackson Republican , the third as Jacksonian and the fourth as a candidate for the National Republican Party . After a two-year hiatus, he sat again in the US House of Representatives from March 4, 1831, and spent two more terms there as a member of the Anti-Masonic Party . In 1834 he missed re-election.

Stewart finally returned to Congress for the last time on March 4, 1843, this time he was elected for the Whigs . After being confirmed twice, he decided not to run again and resigned from parliament on March 3, 1849. He later joined the Republicans and in 1870 reapplied for a mandate in Washington, DC This attempt failed, whereupon Stewart turned his back on politics. Until his death in July 1872 he worked in the building trade and as a real estate agent.

His son Andrew (1836-1903) was later also a member of Congress.

Web links

• Andrew Stewart in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Stewart senior in the database of Find a Grave (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Christian Tarr	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (13th constituency) March 4, 1821 - March 3, 1823	John's death
Walter Forward	United States House of Representatives for Pennsylvania (14th constituency) March 4, 1823 - March 3, 1829	Thomas Irwin
Thomas Irwin	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (14th constituency) March 4, 1831 - March 3, 1833	Joseph Henderson
new constituency	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (20th constituency) March 4, 1833 - March 3, 1835	Andrew Buchanan
James McPherson Russell	United States House Representative for Pennsylvania (18th constituency) March 4, 1843 - March 3, 1849	Andrew Jackson Ogle