Term Start: | 1893 |
Term End: | 1895 |
Birth Date: | 4 April 1857 |
Charles Bingley Stuart was an American judge who served on the United States Court for the Indian Territory between 1893 and 1895.
Charles Bingley Stuart was born on April 4, 1857, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, to Virginia and John William Stuart. The family moved to Louisiana when he was young, but at sixteen he return to Virginia to attend Randolph-Macon College. After graduation he moved to Texas, read the law, and practiced in Texas. He married Blandina Cutliffe in 1884. President Grover Cleveland appointed Stuart to the United States Court for the Indian Territory in 1893 to succeed James Shackelford. He resigned in 1895 and was succeeded by William Yancy Lewis. After he retired he returned to private practice where he would defend Phil Kennamer, the son of Judge Franklin Elmore Kennamer, during his murder trial and manage the estate of Charles Page. He was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1933.[1] He died on October 30, 1936, and was buried at Fairlawn Cemetery in Oklahoma City.[2]