Percy Hamilton Stewart

Percy Hamilton Stewart (born January 10, 1867 in Newark , New Jersey , †  June 30, 1951 in Plainfield , New Jersey) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1933 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Percy Stewart attended the public schools of his home country and then Yale College until 1890 . After a subsequent law degree at Columbia Law School and his 1893 admission to the bar, he began to work in New York City in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1912 and 1913 he served as Mayor of Plainfield City. In 1914, Stewart was Democratic Party leader in Union County . He was also a member of the Washington Rock Park Commission of New Jersey from 1915 to 1921 . From 1919 to 1921 he sat on the education committee of his state, between 1923 and 1929 on the motorway committee.

In 1920 and 1928 Stewart took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . After the death of MP Ernest R. Ackerman , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the fifth seat of New Jersey , where he took up his new mandate on December 1, 1931. Since he renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives in 1932, he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1933 .

In 1932, Stewart ran for a seat in the US Senate , but was defeated by Republican incumbent William Warren Barbour with a difference of around 16,000 votes. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again until 1941; then he retired. He died in Plainfield on June 30, 1951.

Web links

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

• Percy Hamilton Stewart in the database of Find a Grave (English)