Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles Stewart

Full Name: Charles "Charley" Stewart
Other surnames: Stuart
Birth date: May 30, 1836
Death date: September 21, 1895

Terms of Service

Senate, 17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ & 16th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislatures
1/14/1879 - 1/9/1883
Democrat

(1) Harris county election returns show "for the legislature, the democratic ticket is generally conceded to be elected, except, perhaps, McComb, the floater," p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(4) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(5) 16th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/14/1879, p. 3. Senate Journal .
(6) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. C. Stewart, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, pp. 516-521. Stewart an ardent supporter of the Whig party. Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
STEWART, Charles (1836-1895). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
Biographical sketch, Volume II, "Bench and Bar of East Texas," pp. 582-583. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers 1940.
Chas. Stewart, son of Chas. & Maria A. Stewart, birth date 5/30/1836, death date 9/21/1895, grave marker inscriptions, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Find a Grave .
Reports from the San Antonio Herald and the progressive Paris Progress on the status of the democratic party, p. 3, 2/12/1880. Galveston Daily News .
STEWART, CHARLES (1836-1895). Elected as Democrat to Congress. Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, 10th Regiment of Texas Infantry and George Wythe Baylor's Cavalry. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, Hon. Charles Stewart, pp. 449-450. History of Texas Together with a Biographical History of the Cities of Houston and Galveston 1895.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, pp. 129-130. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, Representative, First Congressional District, p. 163. Born 5/30/1836 in Memphis, Tennessee. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Charles Stewart. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, p. 245. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80 1879.