Stewart, John D
soldier, lawyer, jurist, clergyman, congressman, was born Aug. 2, 1833, in Fayette county, Ga. He was elected probate judge, and served as such five years; and was lieutenant and captain in the thirteenth Georgia regiment during the civil war. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1865- 67. He was ordained a minister of the baptist church in 1871; and was mayor of Griffin, Ga., in 1875-76. He was judge of the superior court from 1879 until 1886; and was twice elected judge by the legislature without opposition. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was reelected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.