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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Dixon Hall Lewis |
Address | Lowndesboro, Alabama , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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August 10, 1802
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Died | October 25, 1848
(46 years)
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Contributor | RP |
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Info | born on Bothwick plantation, Dinwiddie County, Va., August 10, 1802; moved to Hancock County, Ga., with his parents in 1806; graduated from Mount Zion Academy and from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1820; moved to Autauga County, Ala., the same year; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823, and commenced the practice of law in Montgomery, Ala.
AL House of representatives 1826-1828
US House (D-AL) 1829-1844. Chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses). Lewis was a large man who occasionally interrupted fights on the floor of Congress. Resigned 4/22/1844, having been appointed to the US Senate.
US Senate (D-AL) 1844-1848. Lewis was appointed to fill he vacancy occasioned by the resignation of William R.D. King and too office on 4/22/1844. He was elected to the seat and re-elected in 1847. Chairman, Committee on Finance (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Retrenchment (Twenty-ninth Congress). He served until his death in New York City on 10/25/1848; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Norman D. Brown, Edward Stanly: Whiggery's Tarheel 'Conqueror', p. 2. |
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