Thomas Jefferson Stuart (d. 1856), attorney and public official, was the son of TJ’s correspondent Archibald Stuart. The younger Stuart attended Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University) in about 1804 and represented Augusta County in the House of Delegates for four terms, 1823–25 and 1832–34. He supported John Quincy Adams in the 1824 presidential election and subsequently became a Whig. In 1850 Stuart owned three slaves and real estate valued at $1,200. He died in Staunton (Washington and Lee University Catalogue description begins Catalogue of the Officers and Alumni of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1749–1888, 1888 description ends , 59; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 318, 323, 363, 367; Washington Daily National Journal, 24 Sept. 1824; Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 1827, 3 May 1834; DNA: RG 29, CS, Augusta Co., 1830–50, 1850 slave schedules; Washington Evening Star, 22 Aug. 1856).