(1) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(2) Harris county election returns show "for the legislature, the democratic ticket is generally conceded to be elected, except, perhaps, McComb, the floater," p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.
(4) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
(5) 16th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll call of newly elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/14/1879, p. 3. Senate Journal.
(6) Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, pp. 516-521. Stewart an ardent supporter of the Whig party. Bench and Bar of Texas, 1885.
STEWART, Charles (1836-1895). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress 1774-Present.
Biographical sketch, Volume II, "Bench and Bar of East Texas," pp. 582-583. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers, 1940.
STEWART, CHARLES (1836-1895). Elected as Democrat to Congress. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biography, Hon. Charles Stewart, pp. 449-450. History of Texas Together With a Biographical History . . . of The Cities of . . . Houston and Galveston, 1895.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, pp. 129-130. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
Biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, Representative, First Congressional District, p. 163. Born 5/30/1836 in Memphis, Tennessee. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.
Biographical sketch, Charles Stewart, p. 245. Texas Legislative Manual, 1879-80, 1879.

Military Service Notes

Confederate States Army, 10th Regiment of Texas Infantry and George Wythe Baylor's Cavalry. Handbook of Texas Online.
Charles Stewart. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.

Other Resources

Chas. Stewart, son of Chas. & Maria A. Stewart, birth date 5/30/1836, death date 9/21/1895, grave marker inscriptions, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Find a Grave.
Reports from the San Antonio Herald and the progressive Paris Progress on the status of the democratic party, p. 3, 2/12/1880. Galveston Daily News.
Biographical information. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries.
Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.

Photographs

Photograph. C. Stewart, 17th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

17th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber vestibule, west wall. 2E.V1). State Preservation Board.
17th session composite photo of Senate members (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Committee Information top

17th R.S. - 1881 Agricultural and Mechanical College and State Normal Schools, Visit Commerce and Manufactures Constitutional Amendments Educational Affairs Finance Internal Improvements Judiciary No. 2 (Chair) Memorial Resolutions Public Claims and Accounts Public Lands Senatorial and Representative Districts State Affairs State Indebtedness (Chair) Statistics of Industries, Public Health, and History of Texas Treasurer's and Comptroller's Departments
16th R.S. - 1879 Commerce and Manufactures Constitutional Amendments Educational Affairs Finance Galveston News Governor's Message, Election of County Officers in Harrison and Smith Counties Insurance, Statistics and History Internal Improvements Judicial Districts Judiciary No. 2 (Chair) New Judiciary Article to the Constitution Privileges and Elections Public Buildings and Grounds Public Debt Public Lands Revision of Code Stock and Stock Raising

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