James Fleming Stewart (June 15, 1851 in
Paterson, New Jersey
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politician who represented
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's
5th congressional district in the
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from to 1895 to 1903.
Biography
Stewart was born in
Paterson, New Jersey
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in 1870. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in New York City. He returned to Paterson and continued the practice of law in 1875, and served as recorder (criminal magistrate) of the city of Paterson from 1890 to 1895.
Stewart was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving in office from March 4, 1895, to March 3, 1903. He was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-seventh Congresses). Stewart was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress.
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law in Paterson, where he died on January 21, 1904. He was interred in
Cedar Lawn Cemetery
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in Paterson.
References
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1851 births
1904 deaths
Politicians from Paterson, New Jersey
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey
Burials at Cedar Lawn Cemetery
19th-century American politicians