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Senate Years of Service: 1939-1949 Party: Democrat
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STEWART, Arthur Thomas, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Dunlap, Sequatchie County, Tenn.,
January 11, 1892; attended the public schools, Pryor Institute, Jasper, Tenn.,
and Emory (Ga.) College; graduated from the law department of Cumberland
University, Lebanon, Tenn.; admitted to the bar in 1913 and commenced practice
in Birmingham, Ala.; returned to Jasper, Tenn., in 1915; moved to Winchester,
Tenn., in 1919 and continued the practice of law; district attorney general of
the eighteenth circuit of Tennessee 1923-1939, when he resigned, having
previously been elected Senator; elected as a Democrat to the United States
Senate on November 8, 1938, for the term ending January 3, 1943, to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Nathan L. Bachman, but, preferring to continue
as district attorney general, did not assume his senatorial duties until
January 16, 1939; reelected in 1942 and served from January 16, 1939, to
January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948; chairman,
Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Seventy-ninth Congress); resumed the practice
of law; died in Nashville, Tenn., October 10, 1972; interment in Memorial Park
Cemetery, Winchester, Tenn.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography.
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