| Jack Stewart | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MLA |
| Constituency Am: | Charlestown |
| Assembly: | New South Wales Legislative |
| Term Start: | 13 February 1971 |
| Term End: | 19 September 1972 |
| Predecessor: | New district |
| Successor: | Richard Face |
| Constituency Am2: | Kahibah |
| Assembly2: | New South Wales Legislative |
| Term Start2: | 13 April 1957 |
| Term End2: | 13 January 1971 |
| Predecessor2: | Tom Armstrong |
| Successor2: | District abolished |
| Birth Date: | 6 January 1910 |
| Birth Place: | Lithgow, New South Wales Australia |
| Death Date: | 19 September 1972 |
| Death Place: | Adamstown, New South Wales Australia |
| Nationality: | Australian |
| Party: | Labor Party |
| Spouse: | Eileen Dorothy Chillinsworth |
| Children: | One son |
| Residence: | Adamstown, New South Wales |
| Profession: | Politician/ Boilermaker |
John Julius Thomas Stewart (6 January 1910 – 19 September 1972) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1957 to 1972, representing the electorates of Kahibah (1957–71) and Charlestown (1971–72).
Stewart was born to parents Charles Thomas Stewart, a Caulker, and Mary Jane Sheen. Stewart jnr was educated at Wickham and Cooks Hill Boys' High School. He apprenticed to boilermaking at Walsh Island Government dockyard in Newcastle.[1]
After a long period of unemployment in the 1930s Great Depression, Stewart married Eileen Dorothy Chillinsworth on 4 December 1950 to whom they had one son. He was a Freemason.[1]
Stewart joined the Labor Party in 1926. He was a member of the Hamilton, Adamstown and Dudley-Redhead branches. He was President of Kahabah state electoral council.
Stewart won Labor pre-selection for the Electoral district of Kahibah and contested and won the seat at the 1957 by-election, following the death of Independent member Tom Armstrong.[2] He won re-election at the 1959,[3] 1962,[4] 1965,[5] and 1968 elections.[6] With abolition of the seat of Kahibah at the 1971 election, Stewart switched seats to the nearby seat of Charlestown.[7] He won the seat but died shortly after the election.[1]
Shortly after winning the seat of Charlestown, Stewart died at his home on . His funeral was held at Beresfield crematorium by Adamstown Methodist Church ministers.[1]