Andrew Stewart (April 6, 1836 – October 18, 1903) was a

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member of the

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from

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Biography

Andrew Stewart (son of Congressman Andrew Stewart) was born in

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. He attended Sewickley Academy in

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, and Madison College in Uniontown. He studied medicine and attended

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. During the

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he enlisted as a private in the Eighty-fifth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, and served throughout the war. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1874. He presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, to February 26, 1892, when he was succeeded by Alexander K. Craig, who contested his election. He was again an unsuccessful candidate to the same congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Craig. He was later engaged in the manufacture of paper pulp and lumber. He died in Stewarton, Springfield Township, Pennsylvania. Interment in Union Cemetery in Uniontown.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Andrew 1836 births 1903 deaths People from Uniontown, Pennsylvania Union Army soldiers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Sewickley Academy alumni 19th-century American legislators