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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeBarbour LEWIS
(1818-1893)
LEWIS, Barbour, a
Representative from Tennessee; born in Alburg, Vt., January 5,
1818; attended the common schools; was graduated from Illinois
College, Jacksonville, Ill., in 1846; taught school in Mobile,
Ala.; was graduated from the law department of Harvard University;
was admitted to the bar and practiced; delegate to the Republican
National Convention in 1860; enlisted in the Union Army August 1,
1861, and served as captain of Company G, First Missouri
Volunteers; appointed by the military authorities judge of the
civil commission court at Memphis, Tenn., in 1863; discharged from
the service November 15, 1864; president of the commissioners of
Shelby County, Tenn., 1867-1869; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-third Congress (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1875); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn.; moved to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1878; appointed to the United States land office at Salt
Lake City, Utah; resigned this position in 1879 and moved to
Whitman County, Territory of Washington, where he engaged in
agricultural pursuits and stock raising; died in Colfax, Wash.,
July 15, 1893; interment in Colfax Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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