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Robert Marcellus Stewart (Governor of Missouri)

b. 1815-03-12 d. 1871-09-21

Buchanan County, Missouri, politician and attorney. Cortland County, New York, native. Son of Charles Stewart and Elizabeth Severance Stewart. Admitted to the bar in 1837, Member of the Senate of the State of Missouri from Buchanan County from 1846 to 1857. Attorney in Buchanan County, Missouri, in 1850. Governor of the State of Missouri from 1857 to 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, Washington, p. 14B.

“Robert Marcellus Stewart, 1857-1860,” Missouri Digital Heritage, accessed January 21, 2024, https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/mdh splash/default?coll=rmstewart.

Rossiter Johnson, ed. "Stewart, Robert Marcellus," in _The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, (Boston: Photographical Society, 1904), vol. 10.

Citation

Stewart, Robert Marcellus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199998 (November 12, 2026).

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