Archibald Stuart (December 2, 1795 – September 20, 1855) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia.

[2] Stuart was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives in 1836, serving from 1837 to 1839.

[1] Stuart died suddenly at his home, "Laurel Hill" in Patrick County, Virginia, on September 20, 1855.

In 1859, this man's widow, Elizabeth Letcher Pannill Stuart, whose ancestor William Lechter had founded the plantation, and died there, killed by a Tory sympathizer in 1780) sold Laurel Hill (including the plantation house rebuilt after an 1847/8 fire) to two men from North Carolina.

Stuart Birthplace Trust, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.