Burwell Boykin Lewis

Burwell Boykin Lewis ( * July 7, 1838 in Montgomery, Alabama, † October 11, 1885 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) was an American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party).

Career

Burwell Boykin Lewis moved with his parents to Mobile (Alabama ). After the death of his parents he lived with his uncle in Montevallo (Alabama ). Lewis attended a private school and graduated in 1857 from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He studied law in Selma ( Alabama), was admitted to the bar in 1859 and then began to practice in Montevallo. During the American Civil War he served in the Confederate Army, where he served in the 2nd Alabama the rank of captain of cavalry.

Lewis also pursued a political career. He was 1870-1872 Member of the House of Representatives from Alabama. Then he moved in 1872 to Tuscaloosa ( Alabama), where he pursued the iron and coal business. Lewis was elected to the 44th Congress, where he served from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1877. In his candidacy for the following 45 U.S. Congress, he suffered a defeat, but he was re- elected to the 46th U.S. Congress. There he worked on 4 March 1879 to October 1, 1880, when he resigned to take up the post of President of the University of Alabama. Lewis has held this post until his death in 1885 in Tuscaloosa. He was buried there in the Evergreen Cemetery.

Montgomery (Alabama) Selma (Alabama) Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)
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