Jacob H. Stewart

Jacob Henry Stewart ( born January 15, 1829 in Clermont, Columbia County, New York; † August 25, 1884 in Saint Paul, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Still in his early teens moved Jacob Stewart with his parents to Peekskill in Westchester County. There he attended the public schools. Then he studied at the Phillips Academy and then at Yale College. After a subsequent study of medicine in New York City and its made ​​in 1851, medical license, he started in Peekskill to work in his new profession.

In 1858, Stewart moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota. There he became in 1856 director of medical care ( Medical Officer ) in Ramsey County. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1858 and 1859 he sat in the Senate from Minnesota. Between 1857 and 1863 he served as Surgeon General of Health Minister of Minnesota. During the Civil War, he was a physician at the Union army.

In the years 1864 and 1868 and from 1872 to 1874 was Jacob Stewart mayor of the city of Saint Paul. From 1865 to 1870, he served there as a post holder. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was in the third electoral district of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William S. King on March 4, 1877. Since he resigned in 1878 to run again, Stewart was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1879.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives was Jacob Stewart Head of the surveying in Minnesota. A post he held 1879-1882. Afterwards, he again worked as a doctor. He died on 25 August 1884 in Saint Paul and was also buried there.

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