John Wolcott Stewart (November 24, 1825–October 29, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and as governor of Vermont before serving in the United States House of Representatives and briefly in the U.S. Senate.
Born in Middlebury, Vermont, Stewart attended the Middlebury Academy and graduated from Middlebury College in 1846. He studied law and was admitted to the bar ...
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John Wolcott Stewart (November 24, 1825–October 29, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and as governor of Vermont before serving in the United States House of Representatives and briefly in the U.S. Senate.
Born in Middlebury, Vermont, Stewart attended the Middlebury Academy and graduated from Middlebury College in 1846. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He became the prosecuting attorney of Addison County from 1852 to 1854.
Stewart served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1856, and then was a member of the Vermont Senate from 1861 to 1862. He returned to the state House from 1865 to 1867, serving as speaker, and then became the governor of Vermont from 1870 to 1872. Later he returned to the state House for a single year, in 1876, again serving as speaker.
Stewart was elected as a Republican to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1882 election. He was...
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