William Morris Stewart

William Morris Stewart ( born August 9, 1827 in Galen, Wayne County, New York, † April 23, 1909 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1864 to 1875 and from 1887 to 1905 he was a senator for the state of Nevada.

When Stewart was still a child, his parents moved to the Trumbull County, Ohio. As a young man he was first mathematics teacher in Ohio. In 1849 he began studying at Yale University, but he dropped out in 1850 to move to California. Like many young men of his time pulling him the gold rush there. He arrived in San Francisco, left the city but soon again to look near Nevada City, California, after gold. At the same time he studied law. 1852 Stewart was admitted as a lawyer in Nevada City. He was soon appointed attorney and was in 1854, at the age of 27 years, for a short time Attorney General of California.

1860 Stewart moved to Virginia City, Nevada. Here he was engaged in mining disputes and supported the expansion of the Comstock Lode silver mine. After Nevada had joined in 1864 as the 36th State of the United States, he participated in the drafting of a constitution for the state.

1864 Stewart was chosen for the Republican Party in the Senate of the United States. He resigned March 3, 1875 from the Senate, as he was no longer taken up in the Senate election. He then worked as a lawyer in Nevada and California. In 1887, he introduced himself, however, successfully re Senate election. The re- elections in 1893 and 1899 he won also. In 1893, he left the Republican Party and joined the Republican Party in Silver. At the latest election in 1899, however, he was again a member of the Republican Party.

Stewart renounced his candidacy for the Senate election in 1904 and retired on March 3, 1905 from the Senate from. He remained in Washington, where he died in 1909. He was cremated and his ashes were first buried in the Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco. Later she was transferred to the Holly Cross Cemetery in Colma.