Lawrence Lewis (politician)

Lawrence Lewis ( born June 22, 1879 in St. Louis, Missouri, † December 9, 1943 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lawrence Lewis attended the public schools in Evanston (Illinois ) and Cambridge (Massachusetts ), and Pueblo (Colorado). He also studied at both the University of Colorado and at Harvard University. There, he graduated in 1901. Between 1901 and 1906 Lewis worked in Denver and Pueblo in the newspaper business, before he returned to Harvard to study law.

After his made ​​in 1909 admitted to the bar in Denver Lewis began to work in his new profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1917 and 1918 he sat in the Services Commission of the State of Colorado (Colorado Civil Service Commission ). In the final stages of the First World War he was a soldier in the U.S. Army. Between October and December 1918, he trained as an officer in the army.

In 1930, Lewis ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. Two years later he was elected as a delegate to Congress in the first district of Colorado, where he became the successor of William R. Eaton on 4 March 1933. After he was confirmed in the following elections each in his office, he could remain until his death on December 9, 1943 at the Congress. In 1933 he was one of the congressmen who initiated the impeachment proceedings against the federal judge Harold Louderback and led. After his death, his seat was taken after a special election to Dean M. Gillespie.

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