Duncan Stewart (Uruguayan politician)

Duncan Antonio Stewart Agell ( born January 2, 1833 in Buenos Aires, † 1923) was a Uruguayan politician.

Duncan Stewart was born in 1833 as the son of Duncan Stewart from Scotland coming and Uruguayanerin Dorotea Agell in Buenos Aires. He belonged to the Partido Colorado. In the government Lorenzo Batlle y Grau he was Minister of Finance in January 1869. In 1888, he was Director of Banco Nacional. On February 9, 1889, he became a member of the Senate for the department of Durazno and took in the following year the Office of the President of the Senate true, he again held in 1894. March 2, 1894 to March 21, 1894, he was interim President of Uruguay. His successor as president was Juan Idiarte Borda. Under January 30, 1895, he resigned from the Senate to exercise in the current 18th legislative period from 9 February this year to 14 February 1897 deputy parliamentary seat as a representative of the department of Montevideo. This was followed in this temporal phase in 1896 a term as president of the Chamber in the Cámara de Representantes. In 1897 he assumed the position of First Vice President of the Cámara de Senadores, in which he had returned on 10 January 1897 as selected for the Department of Maldonado Senator and in which he remained until 10 January of the following year. 1897 and 1898, he held the Presidency of the Comision Permanente del Poder Legislative.