David John Lewis

David John Lewis ( * May 1, 1869 in Osceola Mills, Centre County, Pennsylvania, † August 12 1952 in Cumberland, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917, and again from 1931 to 1939, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Lewis worked after his school years 1878-1892 as a miner in the coal mines. The same time he studied law and Latin. After his made ​​in 1892 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in Cumberland. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. From 1902 to 1906 he sat in the Senate of Maryland. In the years 1916, 1922 and 1938, he sought unsuccessfully to Nomierung his party for the respective elections to the U.S. Senate. 1908 failed a first candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Lewis was but then in the sixth electoral district of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Alexander Pearre on March 4, 1911. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 three legislative periods. Since 1913 he was chairman of the Committee on Labor. This year also was the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified. In 1916 he renounced for the intended election to the U.S. Senate in a bid again.

Between 1917 and 1925, Lewis was a member of the Federal Customs Commission. Otherwise, he worked again as a lawyer. In the elections of 1930 he was again elected in the sixth district of his state in Congress, where he Frederick Nicholas Zihlman replaced on March 4, 1931 the 1917 was there become his successor. After three re- elections he could spend in Congress until January 3, 1939 another four times. Since 1933, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Also in 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. 1938 renounced Lewis again for a planned Senate candidacy on a possible re-election.

From 1939 to 1943 he was a member of the National Mediation Board, an independent government organization that deals with issues of the labor market and labor relations. After he retired from politics. David Lewis died on August 12, 1952 in Cumberland, where he was also buried.