David W. Stewart
David Wallace Stewart | |
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United States Senator from Iowa | |
In office August 7, 1926 – March 3, 1927 | |
Preceded by | Albert B. Cummins |
Succeeded by | Smith W. Brookhart |
Personal details | |
Born | New Concord, Ohio | January 22, 1887
Died | February 10, 1974 Sioux City, Iowa | (aged 87)
Political party | Republican |
David Wallace Stewart (January 22, 1887 – February 10, 1974) served as a
Born in
In early 1926, Stewart became active in the campaign to re-elect longtime Iowa Republican Senator Albert B. Cummins.[1] Starting in April 1926, Cummins received a challenge from an "insurgent" candidate, former U.S. Senator Smith W. Brookhart. That month, Brookhart's Senate colleagues had ousted him from Iowa's other U.S. Senate seat, in an election challenge to his apparent 1924 victory, prompting Brookhart to immediately run for Cummins's seat. Running on a populist, farm-relief agenda, Brookhart defeated Cummins in the primary in June 1926; the following month, Cummins unexpectedly died.
Only the Republicans chose to nominate a candidate in the November 1926 election to serve out the final four months in Cummins's unexpired term, because Democrats concentrated their efforts on an unsuccessful effort to defeat Brookhart's candidacy for the next full term.[2] Stewart went to the Republican nominating convention expecting others to win, and finished a distant fifth on the first ballot, but anti-Brookhart delegates eventually aligned behind him, and he prevailed on the third ballot.[2] That same day, Governor John Hammill appointed Stewart to fill Cummins's seat from August until the November election.[2]
Stewart was elected November 2, 1926 and served until Cummins's unexpired term ended on March 3, 1927. Returning to Sioux City, he resumed the practice of law.
He was president of the
Stewart died in Sioux City in 1974; his interment was in Logan Park Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "David W. Stewart (id: S000906)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-01-24
External links
- Media related to David W. Stewart at Wikimedia Commons
- "David W. Stewart". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2008-01-24.