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| Record Last Updated On:
4/8/2021 |
| Name: ROBERT MARCELLUS (GOV) STEWART |
| Death Date: SEP/21/1871 |
Interment Date:
SEP/22/1871 |
Birth Date: MAR/12/1815 |
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Saint Joseph, Missouri |
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| Sex: M |
Nativity: AMERICAN |
Ethnicity: CAUCASIAN |
| Occupation:Missouri Senator
Governor of Missouri from 1857-1861. |
| Military Branch:Oregon Battalion Mexican War, Enrolled Missouri Militia |
Military Rank:Captain, Corporal |
War Service:Mexican War, Civil War, Union |
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| Child of: Charles Stewart & Elizabeth Severance |
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| Brief Biography: Robert Marcellus Stewart was born to Charles and Elizabeth Severance Stewart in Truxton, New York, on March 12, 1815. Upon graduation from public schools, Stewart began teaching in Truxton at 17. After studying law, he was admitted to the New York Bar in 1836. He practiced law briefly in New York and then in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1837 to 1839.
Stewart moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1839, when he opened a legal practice. He was elected a delegate to the 1845 Missouri Constitutional Convention and to the Missouri Senate. Upon the outbreak of the Mexican War, Stewart organized a company of soldiers attached to the Oregon Battalion. Captain Stewart was forced to resign his commission for health reasons and returned to St. Joseph.
He was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1846, serving a total of 10 years. After Governor Trusten Polk resigned his office to fill a vacant seat in the U. S. Senate in February 1857, Stewart was elected Missouri's 14th governor in the resulting special gubernatorial election, taking office on October 22, 1857.
A moderate, he opposed both secession and abolition. Governor Stewart vetoed legislation that would have forced free African Americans to either leave Missouri or be sold into slavery. In 1858 when violence erupted on the Missouri-Kansas border, he sent troops to the region; temporarily restoring order.
Upon the expiration of his term as governor, Stewart was elected to the 1860 Missouri State Convention, which decided that Missouri would remain in the Union. Poor health prevented military service during the Civil War. Governor Stewart died in St. Joseph on September 21, 1871, and is buried in the Mt. Mora Cemetery.
From the Missouri State Archives site. |
| Epithet: During his time as Governor (1857-1861) Stewart established the state banking system and supported and influenced the all important Hannibal-St. Joseph Railroad. A story exists that Gov. Stewart, well into his cups of an evening, rode his horse into his dining room in his mansion in Jefferson City.
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Burial Number: 61 |
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| Lot Owner: GOVERNORSTEWART |
| Lot Location: ROW 35 |
| Block Location: GRAVE |
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