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Affiliation | Democratic |
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Name | Lewis E. Sawyer |
Address | Hot Springs, Arkansas , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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June 24, 1867
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Died | May 05, 1923
(55 years)
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Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
Last Modifed | RBH Jan 03, 2015 05:49pm |
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Info | born in Shelby County, Ala., June 24, 1867; moved with his parents to Lee County, Miss.; attended the public schools and was graduated from the University of Mississippi at Oxford; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at Friars Point, Miss., in 1895; mayor of Friars Point from 1896 until he enlisted in the Spanish-American War in June 1898; served in the Philippine Islands during the war; resumed the practice of law in Iuka, Miss., in 1900; moved to Hot Springs, Ark., in 1908 and continued the practice of his profession; member of the State house of representatives in 1913 and 1915 and was its speaker in the latter year; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at Hot Springs, Ark., May 5, 1923; interment in Hollywood Cemetery.
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