Archibald Stuart
(1757-1832)
BIRTH
March 19, 1757
PLACE
Augusta County, Virginia
DEATH
July 11, 1832
PLACE
Staunton, Virginia
FAMILY
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
CONSTITUTION RATIFICATION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SITE SELECTION COMMISSION MEMBER, VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION RATIFICATION CONVENTION DELEGATE
AWARDS
Archibald Stuart was a Virginia lawyer and judge who voted for the U.S. Constitution as a delegate from Augusta County in 1788. Stuart served with the Augusta and Rockbridge militia at Guilford Court House in 1781 and in the Yorktown campaign. He sat in the House of Delegates in the 1780s and circulated Madison's Federalist essays. In 1791 he married Eleanor Briscoe. In 1818 he was on the commission that chose the site of the University of Virginia.
EARLY LIFE
Archibald Stuart was born on March 19, 1757, near Staunton, Virginia, the son of Alexander Stuart and Mary Patterson. He studied at Liberty Hall Academy and the College of William and Mary.
Stuart served with the Augusta and Rockbridge militia at Guilford Court House in 1781 and in the Yorktown campaign. He read law under Thomas Jefferson, began practicing by 1782 and corresponded with Jefferson for more than forty years.
He sat in the House of Delegates in the 1780s and circulated Madison's Federalist essays. Elected unanimously to the 1788 ratifying convention for Augusta County, he voted to ratify. In 1791 he married Eleanor Briscoe.
Stuart served as a state senator and presidential elector and from 1800 to 1831 as a judge of the General Court. In 1818 he was on the commission that chose the site of the University of Virginia. He died at Staunton on July 11, 1832.
CAREER
DEATH
Archibald Stuart was a Virginia lawyer and judge who voted for the U.S. Constitution as a delegate from Augusta County in 1788. Stuart served with the Augusta and Rockbridge militia at Guilford Court House in 1781 and in the Yorktown campaign. He read law under Thomas Jefferson, began practicing by 1782 and corresponded with Jefferson for more than forty years. He sat in the House of Delegates in the 1780s and circulated Madison's Federalist essays. Elected unanimously to the 1788 ratifying convention for Augusta County, he voted to ratify. In 1791 he married Eleanor Briscoe. Stuart served as a state senator and presidential elector and from 1800 to 1831 as a judge of the General Court. In 1818 he was on the commission that chose the site of the University of Virginia. He died at Staunton on July 11, 1832. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Archibald Stuart, the Virginia jurist and ratification delegate, distinct from his later namesake and relative. These are legislative, local and ratification histories. Five dedicated biographies were not identified. These editorial selections include biographies where available, with personal writings, collective biography, reference works and related studies clearly labelled.
1. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members — Cynthia Miller Leonard (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The History of the Virginia Federal Convention of 1788 — Hugh Blair Grigsby. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
3. Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871 — Joseph Addison Waddell. [Local and biographical history] Find on Amazon
4. The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Volume X: Virginia, No. 3 — John P. Kaminski; Gaspare J. Saladino (editors). [Primary writings with biographical context] Find on Amazon
5. Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787–1788 — Pauline Maier. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
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