{{Short description|American politician}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Eugene P. Stuart | image = | alt = | caption = | state_senate = Kentucky | district = 36th | term_start = January 1, 1974 | term_end = January 1, 1991 | predecessor = Scott Miller Jr. | successor = Susan Johns | state_house1 = Kentucky | district1 = 48th | term_start1 = January 1, 1964 | term_end1 = January 1, 1974 | predecessor1 = James T. Alexander (redistricting) | successor1 = Louie R. Guenthner Jr. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|10|20}} | birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky | death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|01|27|1927|10|20}} | party = Republican | death_place = }} '''Eugene P. Stuart''' (October 20, 1927 – January 27, 2002)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recarch/02RS/HR88/bill.doc|title=A Resolution adjourning the House of Representatives in loving memory and honor of Eugene P. Stuart.|publisher=Kentucky House of Representatives|accessdate=29 March 2011}}</ref> was a Republican and a longtime member of the Kentucky General Assembly. He was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky on a ticket headed by Jim Bunning in 1983.
== Biography ==
Stuart represented the eastern Louisville suburbs of Jefferson County, Kentucky in the Kentucky General Assembly for a total of 26 years, serving in both the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrc.ky.gov/lrcpubs/rr189.pdf|title=Laws and Regulations Affecting Kentucky Educational Television|date=December 1981|publisher=Kentucky Legislative Research Commission|accessdate=29 March 2011}}</ref> In 1983 Stuart was the Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. The Republican ticket that year was headed by Jim Bunning who later was elected to the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. In 1983 both Bunning and Stuart lost to their Democratic opponents. Stuart won 321,352 votes (35.8%) in the general election to 568,869 (63.4%) for Steve Beshear. Beshear carried Stuart's home base of Jefferson County with 116,222 votes there (58.7%) to Stuart's 80,795 (40.1%).
Stuart remained in the state legislature after his statewide defeat and eventually became Minority Leader in the Kentucky Senate.
In 1990, he was defeated for re-election for Kentucky's 36th senate district by Democrat Susan D. Johns, with 20,747 votes (48%) to Johns' 22,416 (52%).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/110010677/|title=The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky on November 8, 1990 · Page 3|website=Newspapers.com|date=8 November 1990 |language=en|access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref>
Stuart never again sought public office after his 1990 defeat.
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