Charles Bellinger Stewart

Full Name: Charles Bellinger Tate Stewart
Date of birth: February 6, 1806
Date of death: July 28, 1885

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Counties in District
H	14	Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876	14th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Democrat	Montgomery / Montgomery	Harris, Montgomery
H	32	Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853	4th		Montgomery / Montgomery	Montgomery
H	Montgomery	Feb 16, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847	1st		Montgomery / Montgomery	Grimes, Montgomery, Walker

(1) Montgomery, Montgomery County. Directory of the Members and Officers of the Fourteenth Legislature of the State of Texas . . ., 1874.
(2) Danville, Montgomery County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) The marriage of C.B. Stewart and Julia Sheppard took place on March 11, 1836 at the home of Julia's father, W.W. Sheppard, who lived on land in the Lake Creek settlement that would later become the town of Montgomery in July of 1837, "The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart, or, So, Mr. Stewart, Where Did You Go for Your Honeymoon?" Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project.

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House District 14
Jan 13, 1874 - Apr 18, 1876
Legislatures: 14th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Montgomery / Montgomery
Counties in district: Harris, Montgomery

House District 32
Nov 3, 1851 - Nov 7, 1853
Legislatures: 4th
Home City/County: Montgomery / Montgomery
Counties in district: Montgomery

House District Montgomery
Feb 16, 1846 - Dec 13, 1847
Legislatures: 1st
Home City/County: Montgomery / Montgomery
Counties in district: Grimes, Montgomery, Walker

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Resolutions and Journal entries

75th Legislature, R.S., HR 1123. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, p. 176. Birth date 2/18/1806, death date 7/28/1885. Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845, 1942.
Biographical sketch, Dr. Charles Bellinger Stewart, p. 266. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Patriot Ancestor Album, 1995.
STEWART, CHARLES BELLINGER TATE (1806-1885). Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, included in list of doctors who fought in the Battle of San Jacinto, Ch. 5, Surgeons at San Jacinto, pp. 48, 58-59. The Medicine Man in Texas, 1930.
Stewart, Charles Bellinger Tate. Cenotaph. Texas State Cemetery.
Biographical sketches, marriage, obituaries, portrait, and text of Dr. Charles B. Stewart historical marker.
"Charles B. Stewart: Signer of the Declaration of Independence," reprinted from The Men Who Made Texas Free, by Sam Houston Dixon, 1924, Texas Historical Publishing Company, Houston, pp. 239-241.
"Dr. Charles B. Stewart: Statesman, Physician, Scientist, Scholar, Philosopher, and Patriot," reprinted from Houston Tribune Magazine Supplement, Vol. 1, No. 5. Birth date 2/18/1806.
"The Marriage of Charles Bellinger Stewart," by Kameron K. Searle. Marriage to Julia Shepperd on 3/11/1836.
"Montgomery County Texas Confirmed as the Birthplace of the Texas Lone Star Flag," which was designed by Dr. Charles B. Stewart of Montgomery County at the request of President Mirabeau B. Lamar.
Montgomery County, TXGenWeb Project. Houston Tribune Lone Star Flag Marriage Portrait and historical marker The Men Who Made Texas Free

Other Resources

"History of the Lake Creek Settlement . . . " by Kameron Searle. The Early History of Montgomery, Texas, 2011.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1836. Journals of the Convention of the Free, Sovereign, and Independent People of Texas, in General Convention, Assembled. H.P.H. Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897, Volume 1., The Gammel Book Company, 1898, pp. 821-904. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

Photograph. C.R. Stewart, 14th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

14th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

14th R.S. - 1874 Bureau of Tax Rolls in Comptroller's Department Education Finance Immigration Penitentiary (Chair) Private Land Claims Sam Houston's Grave (Chair) Sanitary Legislation (Chair)
4th R.S. - 1851 Apportionment Private Land Claims No. 1 (Chair) Public Lands State Affairs State Geologist, Select
1st R.S. - 1846 Contingent Expenses (Chair) Finance Land Office Official Seals of the Republic of Texas, Collect and Destroy All Privileges and Elections Public Lands Public Printing (Chair)

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