sentences:  After the Civil War, Stewart served as member of the State House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867.He then studied theology, and was ordained as a minister of the Baptist Church in 1871.He served as mayor of Griffin in 1875 and 1876, and as Judge of the Superior Court from 7 November 1879 to 1 January 1886, when he resigned to become a candidate for Congress.