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Elijah B. Lewis | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd district | |
In office March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1909 | |
Preceded by | Charles R. Crisp |
Succeeded by | Dudley Mays Hughes |
Personal details | |
Born | Coney, Georgia | March 27, 1854
Died | December 10, 1920 Montezuma, Georgia | (aged 66)
Political party | Democratic |
Elijah Banks Lewis (March 27, 1854 – December 10, 1920) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
Born in Coney, Crisp County, Georgia, Lewis attended the common schools of Dooly and Macon Counties, Spalding Seminary, Spalding, Georgia, and a business school in Macon, Georgia. He moved to Montezuma, Georgia, in 1871 and engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits. He served as a member of the State senate in 1894 and 1895.
Lewis was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1909).[1] He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. He engaged in his former business activities until his death in Montezuma, Georgia, on December 10, 1920. He was interred in Felton Cemetery.