Dixon Hall Lewis

Dixon Hall Lewis ( born August 10, 1802 Dinwiddie County, Virginia; † October 25, 1848 in New York City ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of Alabama in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Early life

Dixon Lewis was born on a plantation in Virginia, but grew after moving his family from 1806 in Hancock County ( Georgia). He attended the Mount Zion Academy and in 1820 the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Lewis began to study law and settled in 1823 in Lowndesboro (Alabama ) down. 20 miles east of Lowndesboro, in Montgomery, Lewis practiced then as a lawyer.

Policy

In 1826, Lewis was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Alabama and remained there two years. On 4 March 1829 he moved as a representative of the 3rd Congressional District of Alabama, a House of Representatives of the United States and joined in the footsteps of George Washington Owen. Four years later, on March 4, 1833, he took over as the representative of the 4th congressional district newly formed. This office he held until March 4, 1841. Recently took Lewis from March 4, 1841 again the 3rd Congressional District. He was elected in 1844 by intervention of his brother Benjamin Fitzpatrick for U.S. Senator and joined the succession of William R. King on April 22, 1844.

Private life and death

Dixon Hall Lewis was one of the weightiest about U.S. politicians of all time. Through its body weight of 227 kg had to be made ​​in the Senate, a special chair. Lewis died at the age of just 46 years, unmarried and without issue, in New York. He is buried in Greenwod Cemetery in Brooklyn.