James Garfield Stewart (November 17, 1880 – April 3, 1959)The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System - James Garfield Stewart
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politician from

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. He served as mayor of Cincinnati from 1938 to 1947 and then as justice on the

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from 1947 to 1959. Stewart's son

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(1915 - 1985) was an

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of the

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. Another son, Zeph Stewart, was the master of Lowell House and head of the Classics department at Harvard. His daughter was Irene Potter Stewart Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Life and career

Stewart was born in Springfield, Ohio, the son of Mary Emily (Durbin) and James Eli Stewart, and graduated from

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in 1902. He graduated from

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and was

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in 1905. He opened a private practice in Springfield for three years before joining Hugh L. Nichols' firm in Cincinnati in 1908. He was elected to City Council in 1934, and was

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1938-1947. In 1944, Stewart won the Republican nomination for Ohio Governor by just 2,200 votes over Attorney General Thomas Herbert. He lost the general election to

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. March 5, 1947,

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Thomas J. Herbert appointed Stewart to the seat on the

vacated by the resignation of Charles S. Bell. He was elected in 1948, and re-elected in 1952 and 1958. He died April 3, 1959 after giving a speech in

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. His funeral was at Christ Church in Cincinnati, with burial in Springfield. Stewart and Harriet L. Potter were married in 1911, and later divorced.

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