James Augustus Stewart

James Augustus Stewart (1859)

James Augustus Stewart (born November 24, 1808 in Madison , Dorchester County , Maryland , †  April 3, 1879 in Cambridge , Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1855 and 1861 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Stewart attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree in Baltimore and his admission as a lawyer in 1829, he began to work in this profession in Cambridge. At the same time he worked as a building contractor and shipbuilder. Politically, Stewart became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1838 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. He served in the Maryland House of Representatives from 1843 to 1845 .

In the 1854 congressional election , Stewart was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded John Rankin Franklin on March 4, 1855 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events leading up to the civil war . From 1857 to 1859 Stewart was chairman of the patent committee. In 1860 he declined to run again.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, James Stewart initially practiced as a lawyer in Cambridge again. Since 1867 he was a judge on the Maryland Court of Appeals . He held this office until his death on April 3, 1879 in Cambridge.

Web links

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

• James Augustus Stewart in the database of Find a Grave (English)