Francis Eugene "Frank" Stewart (20 February 1923 – 16 April 1979), Australian politician and rugby league footballer, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Lang between 1953 and 1977 and subsequently Grayndler between 1977 and 1979 for the Australian Labor Party.\n', '

Stewart was born in the Sydney suburb of Belmore and educated at St Joseph\'s School, Belmore and St Mary\'s Cathedral College, Sydney. Before World War II, he was a public servant in the New South Wales Department of Transport.\n', 'In the war, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force in New Guinea with the 39th Transport Platoon in 1944 and 1945 and was eventually promoted to sergeant. Prior to his election to parliament, he played first grade rugby league for Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs between 1948 and 1950. He married Maureen Neagle Smith in August 1952.\n', '

Having been a member of the ALP since 1942, Stewart was elected as the federal member for Lang in 1953. Belonging to the right-wing Catholic faction of the party, he was widely considered a grouper, although unlike many other "groupers" he never left the Labor Party.\n', '

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