Clarke Lewis

Clarke Lewis ( born November 8, 1840 in Huntsville, Alabama, † March 13, 1896 in Macon, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1893 he represented the seventh election district of the state of Mississippi in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Back in 1844, Lewis Clarke with his mother in the Noxubee County, Mississippi. There he attended the public schools and later the Somerville Institute. Then he taught himself for some years as a teacher. During the Civil War he was a soldier in the army of the Confederate States. After the end of the war, Lewis began working again as a teacher. In the years 1866 and 1867 he was a clerk in a store. After that, he was until 1879 in both the commercial as well as in agriculture.

Lewis was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1878 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Mississippi. In the congressional elections of 1888 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Frederick G. Barry on March 4, 1889. After a re-election in 1890, Lewis was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1893 two legislative sessions.

After the end of his time in Congress, Lewis committed himself again to his private interests and this mainly agricultural. He died in March 1896 in the vicinity of Macon.

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