STEWART, Andrew (1791-1872)
Whig of Pennsylvania 
18th congressional district
Served in House 1821-1829 , 1831-1835 , 1843-1849
Biography
Representative from Pennsylvania; born near Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., on June 11, 1791; received a good education; taught school; graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Jefferson College), Washington, Pa.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Uniontown; member of the Pennsylvania state house of representatives, 1815-1818; was appointed by President Monroe as United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania and served from 1818 to 1820, when he resigned; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth Congress; and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); elected as an Anti-Mason to the Twenty-second and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1835); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1834 to the Twenty-fourth Congress; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Thirtieth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination; affiliated with the Republican Party; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1870 to the Forty-second Congress; largely interested in building and real estate until his death in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., July 16, 1872; interment in Union Cemetery.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
