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Gideon T. Stewart

American journalist (1824–1909)

Field	Value
image	Gideon T. Stewart.png
caption	Stewart in 1909
office	4th Chairman of the Prohibition Party
term_start	1880
term_end	1884
predecessor	James Black
successor	John B. Finch
office1	Huron County Auditor
term_start1	1850
term_end1	1856
birth_name	Gideon Tabor Stewart
birth_date
birth_place	Johnsontown, New York, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Pasadena, California, U.S.
party	Prohibition
otherparty	Whig
Republican
spouse	Abby Newell Simmons
children	4
signature	Gideon T. Stewart signature.png

Republican Gideon Tabor Stewart (August 7, 1824 – June 10, 1909) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the Prohibition Party's vice presidential nominee in 1876. He was elected three times as grand worthy chief templar of the Good Templars of Ohio.

Early life and education

Stewart was born on August 7, 1824, in Johnstown, New York, to Thomas and Elizabeth Ferguson Stewart. He studied at Oberlin College, but left before graduating to study law in Norwalk, Ohio. He later studied under Noah Haynes Swayne in Columbus, Ohio, for more than a year, and spent two years in Florida with his brother, before returning to Norwalk, where he was admitted to the bar in 1846.

Career

During the American Civil War he published Union newspapers in Iowa and then Toledo, Ohio, before returning to law practice in Norwalk in 1866. Afterward, he served as the party candidate three times for governor of Ohio, seven times for judge on that state's Supreme Court, once for circuit court judge, and once for congress.

During the 1876 presidential election, he received three delegate votes for the Prohibition presidential nomination and was later given the vice presidential nomination to serve alongside Green Clay Smith and received 9,737 votes. In 1880, he was selected as the national chairman of the Prohibition party. During the 1892 presidential election he ran for the Prohibition presidential nomination, but was defeated by John Bidwell with 590 delegates to 179 delegates.

Personal life

In 1857, he married Abby Newell Simmons and later had four children with her.

He died at his home in Pasadena, California, from heart failure, on June 10, 1909, aged 85.

Electoral history

References

(1897). "Bench and Bar of Ohio: a Compendium of History and Biography". Century Publishing and Engraving Company.
"Stewart, Gideon Tabor".
(24 May 1876). "Diversity of Choice". The Summit County Beacon.
(9 July 1892). "Gen. Bidwell Gets It". The De Kalb Chronicle.
(11 June 1909). "Gideon T. Stewart Dead". The Baltimore Sun.
(13 October 2012). "OH Governor 1871".
(17 April 2008). "OH District 10 1872".
(13 October 2012). "OH Governor 1873".
(28 January 2011). "OH Governor 1879".

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