David Stuart (politician)

David Stuart

David Stuart (born March 12, 1816 in New York City , †  September 12, 1868 in Detroit , Michigan ) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Stuart attended the Phillips Academy and then until 1838 Oberlin College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Detroit in his new profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Ebenezer J. Penniman on March 4, 1853 . Since he in the elections of 1854 the Republicans William Alanson Howard was defeated, he could only one term in until March 3, 1855 Congress completed. This was shaped by the discussions and events leading up to the civil war . At that time it was mainly about the question of slavery . In Congress, Stuart chaired the Treasury Department's Expenditure Control Committee.

At the beginning of the Civil War, David Stuart became a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army . At the end of October 1861 he was promoted to colonel and on November 29, 1862 appointed brigadier general. The last appointment was not confirmed by the US Senate on March 11, 1863 . On April 3, 1863, Stuart retired from military service. In the following years until his death on September 12, 1868 he practiced as a lawyer again. He was married to Sarah Lawrence Benson (1820-1895), with whom he had a daughter.

Web links

• David Stuart in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David Stuart in the database of Find a Grave (English)