Henry Carter Stuart
| Henry Carter Stuart | |
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| 47th Governor of Virginia | |
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In office February 1, 1914 – February 1, 1918 |
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| Preceded by | William Hodges Mann |
| Succeeded by | Westmoreland Davis |
| Member of the Virginia State Corporation Commission |
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In office March 1, 1903 – February 28, 1908 |
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| Preceded by | None (commission formed) |
| Succeeded by | William F. Rhea |
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| Born | January 18, 1855 Wytheville, Virginia, USA |
| Died | July 24, 1933 (aged 78) Russell County, Virginia, USA |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Bruce Carter |
| Profession | Politician, farmer and businessman |
Henry Carter Stuart (January 18, 1855 – July 24, 1933) was an American businessperson and politician from Virginia. Between 1914 and 1918, he served as the 47th Governor of Virginia, a period which encompassed World War I.
The eldest of seven sons born to William Alexander Stuart (1826 - 1892) and his wife Mary Taylor Carter Stuart (1831 - 1862), Henry Carter Stuart was born in Wytheville, Virginia. He also had an elder sister, Eliza, who died in 1862. The family owned thousands of acres of ranch land in southwest Virginia, built over generations, including through marriage alliances. Henry Carter Stuart ultimately lived at East Rosedale, a mansion which a maternal ancestor had purchased from Patrick Henry in 1774, and which had been a fort guarding the Clinch River valley during the American Revolutionary War. His paternal grandfather, Archibald Stuart, a lawyer and U.S. Congressman, had several sons, one of whom (Henry's uncle) became Confederate Civil War Cavalry Commander Jeb Stuart.
A graduate of Emory and Henry College (1874), Henry married his cousin, Margaret Bruce Carter in 1896, but they had no children. His nephew of the same name, but nicknamed Harry Carter Stuart (1893-1963), son of this Stuart's brother and business partner Dale Carter Stuart, later became a Virginia State Senator and was active in the Massive Resistance movement.
Stuart was born to wealth, and became wealthier. Upon their father's death in 1893, he and his brothers Alexander ("Zan") and Dale Carter Stuart took over their father's salt company (which by then had become a cattle company). They built Stuart Land & Cattle into the largest cattle company east of the Mississippi River, with 50,000 agricultural acres in four counties. Generations of fathers and sons worked for the company, and many lived in its semi-feudal company towns which attempted to control their access to liquor. The cattle company and other Stuart enterprises also controlled extensive coal and timber reserves. Ironically, Henry Stuart's only child, Mary Fulton, rebelled against her father's country lifestyle and values.
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