# Harry Carter Stuart > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Carter_Stuart > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Harry_Carter_Stuart.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carter_Stuart > Source revision: 1298666759 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American politician (1893–1963)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Harry Carter Stuart | image = | caption = | state_senate = Virginia | district = [18th](/source/Virginia's_18th_Senate_district) | term_start = January 10, 1940 | term_end = September 20, 1963 | preceded = [Jack W. Witten](/source/Jack_W._Witten) | succeeded = [George F. Barnes](/source/George_F._Barnes) | birth_name = Henry Carter Stuart | birth_date ={{birth date|1893|07|04}} | birth_place = [Abingdon, Virginia](/source/Abingdon%2C_Virginia), US | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|09|20|1893|07|04}} | death_place = [Virginia](/source/Virginia), US | other_names = | spouse =Marion Lee Cobbs Stuart | children = | parents =Dale Carter Stuart and Sally Preston White Stuart | relatives = [Henry Carter Stuart](/source/Henry_Carter_Stuart) (uncle) | profession = Cattleman, farmer | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''Henry Carter Stuart''' (July 4, 1893 – September 20, 1963), better known as '''Harry Carter Stuart''', was a [Virginia](/source/Virginia) cattle breeder and trader, who also served as the [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(U.S.)) State Senator from the [18th District](/source/Virginia_Senate%2C_District_18).E. Griffith Dodson: The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1940–1960 (Richmond: Virginia State Publication, 1961) p. 587, available at A lifelong Democrat, Carter helped lead the [Byrd Organization](/source/Byrd_Organization)'s policy of [Massive Resistance](/source/Massive_Resistance) to racial integration in Virginia's public schools. ==Early life and education== Henry Carter Stuart was born in [Abingdon, Virginia](/source/Abingdon%2C_Virginia), to Dale Carter Stuart (1858-1934) and his wife Sally Preston White Stuart (1871-1931). His uncle [Henry Carter Stuart](/source/Henry_Carter_Stuart) (who served as Governor of Virginia during [World War I](/source/World_War_I)) operated the Stuart Land and Cattle Company along with Harry's father and his uncle Zed (Alexander). Their family's cattle company (the 17th oldest business in the country){{cite web|last1=Tabler|first1=Dave|title=Two of the world's oldest family businesses are Appalachian|url=http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/09/two-of-oldest-family-businesses-in.html|website=Appalachianhistory.net|date=8 September 2008|accessdate=21 September 2016}} was the largest ranching operation east of the Mississippi river for nearly a century. Harry had a brother, John W. Stuart (1895-1947), who served as U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Virginia during the [Franklin D. Roosevelt](/source/Franklin_D._Roosevelt) administration.Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy: A History of the Achievements of the Party and its Leaders in the Mother of Commonwealths, the Old Dominion, vol. II (Democratic Historical Association, Inc. 1937) pp. 313 Stuart studied at the Cluster Springs Academy, [Virginia Military Institute](/source/Virginia_Military_Institute) and for a year at [Hampden-Sydney College](/source/Hampden-Sydney_College).E. Randolph Trice, The Elks Parade: A Centennial History and Catalogue of Members of Upsilon Chapter of Kappa Sigma (Richmond: Dietz Press 1983), p. 34 He married Marion Lee Cobbs Stuart (1897 - 1984) ==Career== Stuart began his career as a livestock dealer in 1909, with the family's [Stuart Land & Cattle Company](/source/Stuart_Land_%26_Cattle_Company). During [World War I](/source/World_War_I), he served with the U.S. Army Infantry's 81st Division overseas. The huge cattle and farming operations, the oldest in the country, employed thousands of local people in several southwest Virginia counties.{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/local/author-releases-book-on-stuart-cattle-workers/article_610fc936-54e5-11e5-872d-ef160a0fde04.html|title=Author releases book on Stuart cattle workers|work=heraldcourier.com|date=6 September 2015 |accessdate=21 September 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/newsletter-archive/livestock/aps-07_03/aps-310.html|title=Stuart Land and Cattle Company|work=vt.edu|accessdate=21 September 2016}} Stuart was active in many dairymen's associations, the Elk Gardens Farm Products Corporation, the Virginia Beef Cattle Breeders Association, and a steward in the Methodist Church. The [Future Farmers of America](/source/Future_Farmers_of_America) gave him an award in 1959. He lived in a mansion called Rosedale in [Elk Garden](/source/Rosedale%2C_Virginia), which his uncle Governor H. C. Stuart had built, but which burned down as a result of lightning strikes in a 2012 storm.Lawrence J. Fleenor, Jr. & Edgar A. Howard, Elk Garden (2013 online book available at http://www.bigstonegappublishing.com/elkgarden.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816134428/http://www.bigstonegappublishing.com/elkgarden.htm |date=2016-08-16 }}But see [http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/pratt-says-he-will-rebuild-historic-hilltop-home-destroyed-by/article_0046d779-3702-5de4-a7b5-a6863463ed82.html ''"Pratt says he will rebuild historic hilltop home destroyed by fire"''] (two other houses burned, not the "Governor' House" ==Political career== Stuart was affiliated with the [Byrd Organization](/source/Byrd_Organization). In 1940, voters of [Buchanan](/source/Buchanan_County%2C_Virginia), [Russell](/source/Russell_County%2C_Virginia) and [Tazewell Counties](/source/Tazewell_County%2C_Virginia) elected him to the Virginia State Senate, District 18, replacing [Jack W. Witten](/source/Jack_W._Witten). He was re-elected six times, serving until his death shortly before the special session in 1963. In 1956, Stuart assisted the [Massive Resistance](/source/Massive_Resistance) policy of U.S. Senator [Harry F. Byrd](/source/Harry_F._Byrd) over integration of Virginia's public schools by introducing an interposition resolution, asserting Virginia's sovereignty against encroachment by the federal government. That reacted against the United States Supreme Court decisions in [Brown v. Board of Education](/source/Brown_v._Board_of_Education) (and companion cases including one from [Prince Edward County, Virginia](/source/Prince_Edward_County%2C_Virginia)) in 1954 and 1955. Though Virginia' official response to ''Brown'' was a commission under State Senator [Garland Gray](/source/Garland_Gray) to study options, Gray, Stuart and U.S. Senator Byrd (and others) became radicalized. When the legislature finally met in August 1956, it debated a radicalized segregationist version of the [Gray Commission](/source/Gray_Commission) plan, which became known as the [Stanley Plan](/source/Stanley_Plan). That in part proposed to fund [segregation academies](/source/segregation_academies) through tuition grants, and was sponsored by Stuart in the Virginia Senate as well as delegate [H. Stuart Carter](/source/Henry_Stuart_Carter) of [Washington County](/source/Washington_County%2C_Virginia) and [Bristol](/source/Bristol%2C_Virginia) in the House of Delegates, although opposed by his cousin state senator [Stuart B. Carter](/source/Stuart_B._Carter).Robbins L. Gates, The Making of Massive Resistance: Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954–1956(University of North Carolina Press, 2014) p. 153-155 ==Death and legacy== Stuart died shortly before the 1963 special legislative session and was replaced by [George F. Barnes](/source/George_F._Barnes). However, after the 1964 reapportionment, the district renumbered the 17th was represented by [Donald A. McGlothin Sr.](/source/Donald_A._McGlothin_Sr.), although the district boundaries were again redrawn for the 1966 election and Barnes won election to the 16th District (Buchanan, Smyth and Tazewell counties) and [Macon M. Long](/source/Macon_M._Long) was elected to the 15th District (Dickenson, Russell, Wise and Norton Counties). Almost all of these counties are now in the [38th District](/source/Virginia_Senate%2C_District_38).{{cite web|title=District Map: State Senate District 38|url=http://www.vpap.org/offices/state-senate-38/redistricting/|website=www.vpap.org|accessdate=21 September 2016}} In 1984, Marion Stuart was interred beside Stuart at the Russell Memorial Cemetery in Lebanon, Virginia. His father Dale C. Stuart and uncle Governor H.C. Stuart are also buried there, but his opponent cousin in the Massive Resistance battle, Stuart B. Carter is buried in Fairview cemetery in Buchanan, Virginia. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stuart, Harry Carter}} Category:1893 births Category:1963 deaths Category:People from Abingdon, Virginia Category:Democratic Party Virginia state senators Category:Virginia Military Institute alumni Category:Hampden–Sydney College alumni Category:20th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Harry Carter Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carter_Stuart) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carter_Stuart?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.