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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 1, 2021

John G. Stewart and his wife, Nancy, were asleep in the wee hours of June 17, 1972, when the phone rang with news that five men has been arrested inside his office at the Democratic National Committee headquarters where he was director of communications. At that moment he could not have known the impact of what would became known as Watergate. Prior to joining the DNC, Stewart had been deeply involved in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a top aide to Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Later in life, he moved to Tennessee, serving as a longtime executive for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Stewart died Wednesday at age 86 after a lengthy illness. Knoxnews.com has more on his life and career and the legacy that lives in in his son, state Rep. Mike Stewart, D-Nashville.