William Stewart (Pennsylvania)

William Stewart ( born September 10, 1810 in Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, † October 17, 1876 ) was an American politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Stewart attended the common schools and then completed the Jefferson College in Canonsburg. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Mercer in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. He was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania. He joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Stewart was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Allison on March 4, 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. Since 1859 Stewart was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditures of the War Department.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on October 11, 1876 in his home town of Mercer, where he was also buried.