Donald Stewart | |
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 Stewart in 1887 | |
| Member of the North DakotaHouseofRepresentatives from the Walsh County, North Dakota district | |
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| Born | 1832 Scotland |
| Died | Saskatchewan |
| Political party | Democrat [1] |
| Residence | Bismarck, North Dakota [2] [3] |
Donald Stewart, born around 1832 in Scotland [4] [5] was a politician who served in the North Dakota House of Representatives. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
He was at one point an assisting county surveyor [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] and later became a twice elected as a territorial legislator in Bismarck. In the 1889 election he received 1615 votes. [23] After serving four years he found himself tired of all the local political disputes and he retired from politics and moved with his family to Saskatoon, Canada. [24] [25]
Stewart originally emigrated from Scotland to Ontario, Canada and then to North Dakota. Later on he moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, where he stayed and owned a farm. [26]
He was married to an English woman named Elizabeth Curtis, they had three children, [27] one of them named Elizabeth (born 1878), [28] who went on to marry Edward Hart, thus making Stewart the maternal grandfather of Stewart "Stu" Hart, professional wrestling great and patriarch of the Hart wrestling family. [29] Edward and Elizabeth would work for Stewart on his farm in Saskatoon for a few years before moving to Alberta. [30]
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