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 HERRING8HAW S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Lewis,

James

legislator,

soldier,

T.,

governor,

was

lawyer, state born Oct. 30,

1819. in Clarendon, N.Y. lie was elected to the Wisconsin state legislature in 1851; and to the state senate in 1852. He was

lieutenant-governor in 1853; secretary of 1861; and goTernor of Wisconsin

ptate in in 1863.

the term ending in 1875. Lewis, John Frederick, lawyer, orator, was born Sept. 10. 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa. Ho received liis education in the public schools of Philadelphia, and was u graduate of the Central high school of that city. He has attained success at the bar; has been president of the Law academy of Philadelphia, and was formerly its prothonotary. He is chairman of the ex«H.'Utive committee of the Philadelphia Humane society; president of the American Humane union: and vice-president of the Merchants'

company. He

is

identified with

many

charitable institutions; is secretary of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb; and for many years was president of the Lutheran association of Philadelphia, and also of the Missionary society of St. John's Lutheran church.

Lewis, John H., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 21, 1830, in Tompkins county, N.Y, He was elected clerk of the circuit court of Knox county, in 1800; was elected a representative the state legislature in 1874; and was a representative from Illinois to the forty-seventh congress as a republi111.,

in

elected can.

Lewis, John Kerfoot, educator, clergyman, was born March 18, 1835, in York, Pa. In 1858 he was ordained deacon, and two years later a priest in the proteatant episcopal church. He was commissioned a chaplain in the United States navy in 1869, retiring

director and gymnastic instructor. H« also has been professor in the summer school of Higher physical culture at Montcal

Tenn. Lewis, John William, lawyer, congressman, was born near Greensburg, Ky. He was a member of the republican state central committee o f Kentucky from 1878 to 1891, and was chairman of the same in the state campaign of 1887; and was the republican

eagle,

Lewis, John Ashbury, banker of St. Louis, was born Oct. 24, 1864, in St. l^ouis, Mo. He is cashier of the National bank of conimerce. Lewis, John Francis, farmer, United States senator, was born March 1, 1818. near Fort Republic, Va. He was a union candidate for congress in 1805, and defeated; and in 1869 was numinated for lieutenant-governor, and eliH-'ted. He was elected a United States senator from Virginia in 1869, and took his seat in 1870 for Mo.,

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Lewis, John Tillery, physical instructor, was Iwrn Jan. 0, 1874, in Homesville, Miss. He attended the Millsaps college of Jackson, Miss., in which institution he is physi-

from same

in

1897.

Lewis, John T., soldier, lawyer, was born 1838, in Lewis county. Mo. He 6, served four years in the confederate army under General Price's command. For eight years he was cashier of the Canton savings bank; and for six years was mayor of tliat city. In 1876 he was a presidential elector on the Tilden and Hendricks ticket; and was prominent in politics during the trying times of nfonstruction and has always been a consistent democrat. He is now one of the foremost lawyers of Texas at San Antonio.

Nov.



candidate

for elector for his district in the • presidential c a paign of 1892. He

m

has been often elected special judge of

Marion circuit court, and served as special judge in circuit courts of Marion, Taylor and other counties of the judicial district. He was nominated for representative in congress by the reiniblican convention June, 1894, and was elected to the republican. in

Virginia.

lifty-fourth

congress as a

congressman, was born He was a representative in

Lewis, Joseph,

Jr.,

congress from that state from 1803 to 1817. Lewis, Joseph H., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 29, 1824, in Harren county, Ky. He was a member of the state legislature in 1850, 1851, 1852 and 1869. He was elected to the forty-first congress to fill a vacancy; and was ret'h'cted to the forty -second congress as a democrat. Lewis, Joseph R., lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Washington territory; and in 1872 was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for that district.

Lewis, Joseph Stuart, real estate dealer and banker of Oak Hill, W.Va., was born 13. 1874, in Buckingham county, Va. is vice-president of the Merchants and miners' bank. Lewis, Joshua, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1744 in Virginia. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Orleans; and in 1806 was appointed judge of the United States court for that district. He died Juin' 5, 1833, in New Orleans, La. lawyer, Lewis, Laurence, author, was horn June 20, 18.''>7, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Pennsylvania Courts in the Seventeenth Century; History of the Bank of North America; Memoir of Kdward Shippen: and Original Land Titles in Philadelphia. He died in 1890. Lewis, Juan, soldier, public oHicial, poet. Col. I^wis is connected with the United

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