William Thomas Stewart (October 18, 1853 – August 21, 1935) was mayor of Kanab, Utah, U.S., from 1889–91, and a Representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature in 1887 and 1889.

The son of Levi Stewart and Margery (Wilkerson) Stewart, he was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He moved to Kanab, Utah in 1870 when his father was called by Brigham Young to create a new settlement there. A few months later his mother and several of his siblings were killed in a fire.

William Thomas Stewart

He married Rachel Tamar Hamblin, daughter of Jacob Hamblin, in 1873.

William Thomas Stewart

He became a polygamist in 1879 when he married Fannie Maria Little. He took a third wife, Mary Udall in 1880. She was the sister of David King Udall who was already married to William's sister Eliza Stewart.

William Thomas Stewart

In 1887 and 1889 he was elected to the Utah Territorial Legislature, and in 1889 he was elected as the mayor of Kanab.

In 1901 he was called by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to help settle Alamo, Nevada.

He died in Alamo in 1935.

See also

Udall family (political family)

External links

Extended biography of William Stewart

References

1853 births

1935 deaths

Mayors of places in Utah

People from Lincoln County, Nevada

Members of the Utah Territorial Legislature

19th-century American politicians

Udall family

American Latter Day Saints

People from Kanab, Utah

Politicians from Salt Lake City