time, Memphian Kenneth McKellar. Unlike some of the other Southern Senators, however, Stewart was also a staunch pro-Roosevelt New Dealer and was the only successful Senator to win a primary and purge an incumbent Senator whom Roosevelt targeted in the 1938 midterm election "purge." Stewart was reelected in 1942. In that year, shortly after the beginning of Japanese internment, he introduced a bill in the Senate to revoke citizenship from all American-born persons of Japanese ancestry. In 1948, he was challenged for renomination by Estes Kefauver, a progressive East Tennessean who defeated him. Edward J. Meeman, the influential editor of the Memphis Press-Scimitar, supported Kefauver to undermine the Crump machine, with which Meeman had long been at odds. After he defeated Stewart, Kefauver then handily prevailed over the Republican nominee, B. Carroll Reece. Stewart returned to the private practice of law. He died in Nashville and was interred at Winchester's Memorial Park Cemetery. References External links 1892 births 1972 deaths Tennessee Democrats Emory University alumni Cumberland School of Law alumni Democratic Party United States senators from Tennessee 20th-century American politicians People from Dunlap, Tennessee People from Winchester, Tennessee