Lewis Charles Levin

Lewis Charles Levin ( born November 10, 1808 in Charleston, South Carolina, † March 14, 1860 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. From 1845 to 1851 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Levin graduated from the South Carolina College, later the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Around the year 1828, he moved to Woodville in Mississippi, where he worked as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in several states in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. He led a crusade against alcohol consumption. He was also a founder of the American Party in 1842. He gave provocative speeches, among other things, against Catholics, which led to civil unrest in Philadelphia. Levin was at that time out, the Philadelphia Daily Sun newspaper.

In the congressional elections of 1844 Levin was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward Joy Morris on March 4, 1845. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1851 three legislative periods. These were shaped by the events of the Mexican-American War. After the discussions on the issue of slavery certain U.S. domestic politics. From 1847 to 1849 Levin was chairman of the Committee on Engraving. In 1850 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lewis Levin sought his election to the U.S. Senate. Here he came under suspicion of corruption, for allegedly trying to bribe MPs in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. These had by the law then the power to choose the U.S. senators. In the following years he continued his agitation against political opponents. He suffered a nervous breakdown. He was admitted to a mental hospital, where he died on 14 March 1860.