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STEWART, Gideon Tabor, lawyer, born in Johnstown, New York, 7 August, 1824. He removed with his parents to Oberlin, Ohio, where he was educated. Subsequently he studied law in Norwalk and then with Noah H. Swayne in Columbus. In 1846, after his admission to the bar, he began practice in Norwalk, where in 1846 he became editor of the "Reflector." He was elected county auditor as a Whig and held that office during three terms. In 1861 he removed to Iowa, where he purchased the Dubuque "Daily Times," and published it during the civil war. At the time of its purchase it was the only daily Union paper in the northern half of the state. Previously he was one of the proprietors of the Toledo "Blade," and afterward of the Toledo "Commercial," but in 1876 he returned to Norwalk, where he has since continued his law-practice. Mr. Stewart was three times elected grand worthy chief templar by the Good Templars of Ohio. in 1853 he took part in the Maine law campaign of that year, and then endeavored to organize a permanent Prohibition party. He was chairman of a state convention in 1857 in Columbus for the purpose of forming such a party, but the movement failed on account of the troubles in Kansas and the civil war. In 1869 he was one of the delegates from Ohio to the Chicago convention that formed the National prohibition party. Since that time he has been nominated three times for governor, seven times for supreme judge, once for circuit judge, once for congress, and once for vice-president in 1876, when, with Green Clay Smith as candidate for president, he received a popular vote of 9,522. For fifteen years he was a member, during four of which he was chairman of the national executive committee of his party. In 1876, 1880, and 1884 the Prohibition state convention unanimously instructed the Ohio delegates to present him in the National convention as their choice for presidential candidate, but each time he refused to have his name brought forward. Mr. Stewart has written much in advocacy of the temperance reform, and many of his public addresses have been extensively circulated.
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