Lispenard Stewart
Lispenard Stewart Jr. (June 19, 1855 – October 15, 1927) was an American lawyer who served as New York State Senator. Early life Stewart was born on June 19, 1855, in Hudson, New York. He was the son of Lispenard Stewart (1809–1867) and his wife Mary Rogers Rhinelander (1821–1893, a member of the New York prominent Rhinelander family and first cousin of Frederic W. Rhinelander). He was the brother of Sarah Lispenard Stewart (1837–1920), William Rhinelander Stewart (1852–1929), and Mary Rhinelander Stewart (1859–1949), who married iron magnate Frank S. Witherbee. Through his brother William, he was the uncle of Anita Rhinelander Stewart (1886–1977) who married Prince Miguel, Duke of Viseu, grandson of King Miguel I of Portugal. His paternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart (nephew of Continental Congressman Lt.-Col. Charles Stewart) and Sarah Stewart (née Lispenard, a granddaughter of Col. Leonard Lispenard). He was the maternal grandson of William Christopher Rhinelander (1790–1878), Lieutenant in Colonel Stevens' Regiment in the War of 1812. He graduated from Yale in 1876, the same year he entered Columbia Law School, graduating in 1878. During his second year in the law school studied also in law office of Platt & Gerard. Career While still in law