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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaElijah Banks LEWIS
(1854-1920)
LEWIS, Elijah Banks, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Coney, Dooly County, Ga.,
March 27, 1854; attended the common schools of Dooly and Macon
Counties, Spalding Seminary, Spalding, Ga., and a business school
in Macon, Ga.; moved to Montezuma, Macon County, Ga., in 1871 and
engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits; member of the State
senate in 1894 and 1895; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth
and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the
Sixty-first Congress; engaged in his former business activities
until his death in Montezuma, Ga., on December 10, 1920; interment
in Felton Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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