Barbour Lewis

Barbour Lewis

Barbour Lewis (born January 5, 1818 in Alburgh , Vermont , †  July 15, 1893 in Colfax , Washington ) was an American politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Barbour Lewis attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1846 the Illinois College in Jacksonville . He then worked for some time in Mobile ( Alabama ) as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree from Harvard University and admission to the bar, he began to work in his new profession. Politically, Lewis joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854 . In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. During the Civil War until 1863 Lewis was captain of a Missouri volunteer unit that was part of the Union Army . Between 1863 and 1864 he was employed by the military administration in occupied Memphis as a civil judge. In the following years he stayed in Tennessee. Between 1867 and 1869 he was District Administrator in Shelby County .

In the congressional election of 1872 Lewis was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the re-established ninth constituency of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he was not confirmed in 1874, he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1875 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Lewis practiced as a lawyer in Memphis. In 1878 he moved to St. Louis , Missouri. A year later he headed the Land Office in Salt Lake City for a few months . He then moved to the Washington Territory , where he worked in agriculture and especially in cattle breeding. He died on July 15, 1893 in Colfax in the now established state of Washington.

Web links

• Barbour Lewis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Barbour Lewis in the database of Find a Grave (English)