Lewis Steenrod

Lewis Steenrod
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 21st district
In office
March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843
Preceded byWilliam S. Morgan
Succeeded bydistrict obsolete
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 15th district
In office
March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1845
Preceded byRichard W. Barton
Succeeded byWilliam Gay Brown, Sr.
Member of the Virginia Senate
from the Ohio, Hancock, Brooke district
In office
December 5, 1853 – December 6, 1857
Preceded byThomas Sweeney
Succeeded byAlfred Caldwell
Personal details
Born(1810-05-27)May 27, 1810
Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), US
DiedOctober 3, 1862(1862-10-03) (aged 52)
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Neldon
Professionlawyer, politician

Lewis Steenrod (May 27, 1810 – October 3, 1862) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia, who helped secure Congressional authorization of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge but who later opposed secession of what became West Virginia months before his death.[1][2]

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of American Biography (1901) p. 886
  2. ^ CongBio no. S000843