Lewis Sperry

Lewis Sperry ( born January 23, 1848 in East Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut; † January 22, 1922 ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1895 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Sperry attended the district school of his native land, the Monson Academy in Massachusetts and then to 1873 Amherst College in Amherst. After studying law and its made ​​in 1875 admitted to the bar he began in Hartford to work in his new profession.

Politically Sperry was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1876 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In the congressional elections of 1890 Sperry was in the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William E. Simonds on March 4, 1891. After a re-election in 1892 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 two coherent legislative periods. For the 1894 elections, he was defeated by Republican candidate E. Stevens Henry.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lewis was acting Attorney General of Connecticut in 1899. In 1902 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution. From 1905 to 1917 he sat in the Health Committee of his country and was a legal advisor to the Highway Committee. He also worked again as a lawyer in Hartford. Sperry died on June 22, 1922 in his hometown of East Windsor.