Isham Stewart, sometimes written as Isom Stewart, was a state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era and also served in the Mississippi Senate. [1] He was the target of attacks from newspapers critical of African American politicians as well as so-called scalawags and carpetbaggers. [2] His son served as deputy sheriff and was prosecuted under a law intended to target Ku Klux Klan members. [3] His son Robert served as postmaster in Macon, Mississippi. [4]
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Stewart was one of the first black legislators in Mississippi, he was photographed. [5] He represented Noxubee County.
He served as a delegate to the constitutional convention and signed Mississippi's Reconstruction era 1868 constitution. [6]