Andrew Stewart (June 11, 1791 – July 16, 1872) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from

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. Andrew Stewart (father of Andrew Stewart) was born near

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. He graduated from Washington College (now

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) in

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. He was one of the founders of the Union Literary Society at

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. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Uniontown. He was a member of the

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from 1815 to 1818. He was appointed by President

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as the first

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for the newly created

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based in

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, serving until 1821. Stewart was elected as a

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to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress. He was elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834. Stewart was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses. He served as chairman of the

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during the Thirtieth Congress. In 1848 he declined to be a candidate for renomination. He was runner-up to

Millard Fillmore Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853; he was the last to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House. A former member of the U.S. House of Represen ...

for the vice presidential nomination at the

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. The Whig ticket was successful, and Fillmore ascended to the Presidency when Taylor died, meaning that Stewart was nearly President. He was affiliated with the Republican Party, and was a delegate at the

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. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1870. He was largely interested in building and real estate until his death in Uniontown. He was interred in Union Cemetery.

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The Political Graveyard

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