Joseph Horace Lewis

Joseph Horace Lewis ( * October 29, 1824 in Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky; † July 6, 1904 in Georgetown, Kentucky) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Lewis attended the public schools of his home and then to 1843, the Centre College in Danville. After a subsequent law degree in 1845 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Glasgow to work in this profession. Politically, Lewis was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1850 and 1855 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky. In the years 1856 and 1860 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy, where he rose to brigadier general.

After the war, Lewis returned to Glasgow, where he practiced as a lawyer again. In the years 1869 and 1870 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament. Following the resignation of Mr Jacob Golladay he was in the third electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 10 May 1870. After a re-election at the regular congressional elections of 1870, he could remain until March 3, 1873 in Congress.

In 1872, Lewis opted not to run again. After that, he worked again as a lawyer. In 1874 he became a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. This office he held until 1898; afterwards he moved to his farm in Scott County. There he spent his remaining years. On this farm near Georgetown Joseph Lewis died on July 6, 1904. He was buried in Glasgow.

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