Early Career
Stewart served in World War II as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve aboard oil tankers.
In 1943, he married Mary Ann Bertles in a ceremony at Bruton Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, Virginia. His brother, Zeph Stewart (also an initiate of Delta Kappa Epsilon and Skull and Bones), was the best man. They eventually had a daughter, Harriet (Virkstis), and two sons, Potter, Jr. and David.
He was employed in private practice at the law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP in Cincinnati. During the early 1950s, he was elected to the Cincinnati City Council. At the age of 39, in 1954, he was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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