Joseph Horace Lewis

Joseph Horace Lewis

Joseph Horace Lewis (born October 29, 1824 in Glasgow , Barren County , Kentucky , †  July 6, 1904 in Georgetown , Kentucky) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Lewis attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1843 the Center College in Danville . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to work in this profession in Glasgow. Politically, Lewis became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1850 and 1855 he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives . In the years 1856 and 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . During the Civil War he served in the Confederation Army , where he rose to Brigadier General.

After the end of the war, Lewis returned to Glasgow, where he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1869 and 1870 he was once again a member of the state parliament. After the resignation of the representative Jacob Golladay he was elected in the third constituency of Kentucky as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on May 10, 1870. After being re-elected in the regular congressional elections of 1870, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1873 .

In 1872 Lewis declined to run again. After that he worked again as a lawyer. In 1874 he became a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals . He held this office until 1898; then he moved to his farm in Scott County . There he spent his old age. Joseph Lewis died on July 6, 1904 on this farm near Georgetown. He was buried in Glasgow.

Web links

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

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