Isham Stewart

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]

Isham Stewart

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]

See also

• African American officeholders from the end of the Civil War until before 1900