David Wallace Stewart (January 22, 1887February 10, 1974) served as a

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from

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from August 7, 1926, until March 3, 1927, serving out the unexpired term of a senator who died soon after he was defeated for re-election in a Republican primary. Born in

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, Stewart attended public schools and graduated from

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(in

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) in 1911."'Dave' Stewart Worked Way Through School," Oelwein Daily Register, 1926-08-07, at 1. He came to Iowa in 1911, to coach at

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, and then coached and taught high school classes in

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until 1914. He graduated from the

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in 1917 where he was a member of the

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fraternity. Serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in the

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under General

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, he served overseas as a first sergeant in Company K of the 53rd Regiment. Returning to Sioux City after the war, he resumed the practice of law. He was president of that city's

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in 1925. In early 1926, Stewart became active in the campaign to re-elect longtime Iowa Republican Senator Albert B. Cummins. Starting in April 1926, Cummins received a challenge from an "insurgent" candidate, former U.S. Senator Smith W. Brookhart. That month, Brookhart's Senate colleagues had ousted him from Iowa's other U.S. Senate seat, in an election challenge to his apparent 1924 victory, prompting Brookhart to immediately run for Cummins's seat. Running on a populist, farm-relief agenda, Brookhart defeated Cummins in the primary in June 1926; the following month, Cummins unexpectedly died. Only the Republicans chose to nominate a candidate in the November 1926 election to serve out the final four months in Cummins's unexpired term, because Democrats concentrated their efforts on an unsuccessful effort to defeat Brookhart's candidacy for the next full term."Republicans Nominate Stewart Senator," Oelwein Daily Register, 1926-08-07, at 1. Stewart went to the Republican nominating convention expecting others to win, and finished a distant fifth on the first ballot, but anti-Brookhart delegates eventually aligned behind him, and he prevailed on the third ballot. That same day, Governor

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from 1938 to 1962. Stewart died in Sioux City in 1974; his interment was in Logan Park Cemetery.

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