Lewis Selye

Lewis Selye ( born July 11, 1803 in Chittenango, New York, † January 27, 1883 in Rochester, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis Selye attended community schools. He was apprenticed to a blacksmith. In 1824 he then moved to Rochester, where he pursued the manufacture of iron. He sat several terms in the District of Monroe County. In 1841 he was elected Alderman. He sat in 1843, 1856 and 1871 in the Common Council. Between 1848 and 1851, and 1854 he was County Treasurer in Monroe County.

In the congressional elections of 1866 for the 40th Congress was Selye as an independent Republican in the 28th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Roswell Hart on March 4, 1867. He retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress.

In 1868 he founded the Rochester Daily Chronicle, which in 1870 merged with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He was a Trustee of the Monroe County Savings Bank. On January 27, 1883, he died in Rochester. His body was then buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.