Background
Stewart was born to parents Charles Thomas Stewart, a Caulker, and Mary Jane Sheen.
Stewart was born to parents Charles Thomas Stewart, a Caulker, and Mary Jane Sheen.
Stewart jnr was educated at Wickham and Cooks Hill Boys" High School. He apprenticed to boilermaking at Walsh Island Government dockyard in Newcastle.
After a long period of unemployment in the 1930s Great Depression, Stewart married Eileen Dorothy Chillinsworth on 4 December 1950 to whom they had one son. He was a Freemason.
Stewart joined the Australian Labor Party in 1926. He was President of Kahabah state electoral council.
With abolision of the seat of Kahibah at the 1971 election, Stewart switched seats to the nearby seat of Charlestown.
Shortly after winning the seat of Charlestown, Stewart died at his home on 19 September 1972. His funeral was held at Beresfield crematorium by Adamstown Methodist Church ministers.
He was a member of the Hamilton, Adamstown and Dudley-Redhead branches.