Lewis P. Featherstone

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Lewis Porter Featherstone (born July 28, 1851 in Oxford , Mississippi , † March 14, 1922 in Longview , Texas ) was an American politician . Between 1890 and 1891 he represented the first constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lewis Featherstone attended the schools of his home and then studied at the Faculty of Law at Cumberland University in Lebanon ( Tennessee ) Jura. He then worked as a planter in Shelby County , Tennessee . After moving to St. Francis County , Arkansas, he worked there in the same profession. Politically, he joined a movement called the Agricultural Wheel , which represented the interests of farmers and then merged with the United States Labor Party .

In the congressional elections of 1888, the Democrat William H. Cate was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC against Featherstone . Featherstone appealed against this election. After this was approved, he was able to take his seat in Congress exactly in the middle of the legislative period, on March 5, 1890, and terminate his term of office until March 3, 1891. In the elections of 1890 he was nominated by the Labor Party for a further legislative term, but was defeated by Cate, who thus regained the mandate he had lost in 1890.

After his time in Congress, Featherstone got into the railroad business. In Texas, he also dealt with iron processing. During the Spanish-American War he was captain of a volunteer unit. He died in Longview in March 1922 and was buried in San Antonio .

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SURNAME Featherstone, Lewis P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Featherstone, Lewis Porter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1922
Place of death Longview , Texas