John David Stewart (August 2, 1833 – January 28, 1894) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1887 to 1891.

He was a lieutenant and the captain in the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

After the Civil War, Stewart served as member of the State House of Representatives from 1865 to 1867.

He served as mayor of Griffin in 1875 and 1876, and as Judge of the Superior Court from 7 November 1879 to 1 January 1886, when he resigned to become a candidate for Congress.

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