By: VHFA

November 9, 2009

stewart ledbetterFormer VHFA Board of Commissioners chairman Stewart Ledbetter passed away last Thursday at 76.

Stewart chaired the VHFA Board in the late 1970s, while Commissioner of Vermont's Department of Banking and Insurance.

In 1980, he lost by a narrow margin when he ran for the U.S. Senate as a Republican against Democrat incumbent Patrick Leahy.

Funeral services are set for tomorrow in Vero Beach, Fla.