Lewis Dewart

Lewis Dewart ( born November 14, 1780 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, † April 26, 1852 ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Dewart attended the common schools and worked as a clerk in his father's shop. Later he went into the coal and the banking industry. Between 1806 and 1816 he was postmaster in Sunbury. At the same time he embarked on a political career. From 1812 to 1820 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1823-1826 he was a member of the State Senate. Dewart was also one of the founders of the Danville & Pottsville Railroad and was one of the first directors of the railway company. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this.

In the congressional elections of 1830 Dewart in the ninth constituency of Pennsylvania was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Alem Marr on March 4, 1831. Until March 3, 1833, he was able to complete a term in Congress. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

Between 1835 and 1840, Dewart was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In 1840, he served as its president. In 1837 he was also mayor of Sunbury. He also belonged to the school board. In 1840 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial election. He died on 26 April 1852 in Sunbury. His son William (1821-1888) was also a congressman.