John W. Lewis

John W. Lewis

John William Lewis (born October 14, 1841 in Greensburg , Kentucky , †  December 20, 1913 in Fort Worth , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1895 and 1897 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

John Lewis attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1862 the Center College in Danville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1863, he began to work in his new profession in Greensburg. In January 1869 he moved to Springfield . Politically, Lewis was a member of the Republican Party . In April 1880 he was temporarily chairman of the regional Republican party convention in Kentucky. In the years 1880, 1884, 1888 and 1904 he took part as a delegate at the respective Republican National Conventions . From 1878 to 1891 Lewis sat on the state board of his party. In the meantime he also worked as a judge in various districts of his state.

In the congressional elections of 1894 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Alexander B. Montgomery on March 4, 1895 . Since he lost in the elections of 1896 to the Democrat David Highbaugh Smith , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1897 . After his time in the US House of Representatives, John Lewis practiced again as a lawyer in Springfield; in 1904 and 1908 he still held a few regional party functions. He died in Fort Worth on December 20, 1913 and was buried in Lebanon .

Web links

• John W. Lewis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John W. Lewis in the database of Find a Grave (English)