Lewis Hanback

Lewis Hanback (born March 27, 1839 in Winchester , Illinois , † September 7, 1897 in Kansas City , Kansas ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lewis Hanback attended his home public schools and Cherry Grove Seminary in Knox County . Between 1860 and 1861 he was a teacher in Morgan County . During the Civil War he was a soldier in an infantry regiment with volunteers from Illinois. He then studied law in Albany ( New York ).

Hanback then moved to Topeka , Kansas, where he worked as a lawyer from 1865. There he was also justice of the peace in 1867. From 1868 to 1872 he served as a probate judge in Shawnee County . Hanback was also employed in administration in the Kansas House of Representatives and the State Senate in 1877 . Between 1877 and 1879 he was the deputy federal district attorney and tax collector in the city of Salina .

Politically, Hanback was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1882, he was elected as their candidate for the newly created fourth seat of the state in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . After re-election in 1884, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress between March 4, 1883 and March 3, 1887 . After not being sustained in 1886, Hanback returned to practice as a lawyer. He died in Kansas City in September 1897 and was buried in Topeka.

Web links

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

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