Lewis McKenzie

Lewis McKenzie

Lewis McKenzie (born October 7, 1810 in Alexandria , Virginia , †  June 28, 1895 ibid) was an American politician . In 1863 and from 1870 to 1871 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good education, Lewis McKenzie worked in commerce. He also embarked on a political career. From 1855 to 1859 he was a member of the Alexandria City Council. Between 1861 and 1863 he was mayor of this city. After the expulsion of Congressman Charles H. Upton , McKenzie was elected as a unionist in the due by-election for the seventh seat of Virginia as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on February 16, 1863 he exercised for a few weeks until March 3, 1863 against the backdrop of the civil war . After that, the mandate was not filled until 1870, since Virginia was no longer part of the Union.

From 1863 to 1866 and again between 1868 and 1870 McKenzie was again a city councilor in Alexandria. After the re-admission to the Union of Virginia was elected a member of the short-lived Conservative Party again in the seventh constituency of his state in the Congress elected, where he finished the current legislative period between 31 January 1870 and 3 March 1871st He later became president of the Washington and Ohio Railroad . In 1878 he became a postman in Alexandria; from 1887 to 1891 he was a member of the city council of his hometown for the last time. Lewis McKenzie died on June 28, 1895 in Alexandria, where he was also buried.

Web links

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

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