James Augustus Stewart

James Augustus Stewart (* 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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Stewart attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law school in Baltimore, and his 1829 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Cambridge in this profession. 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 even the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1843 and 1845 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Stewart was the first electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Rankin Franklin on March 4, 1855. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 three legislative periods. 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 opted not to run again.

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