Ron Lewis

Ronald E. "Ron" Lewis ( * September 14, 1946 at South Shore, Greenup County, Kentucky) is an American politician. Between 1994 and 2009 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ron Lewis attended the public schools of his home including the McKell High School, where he graduated in 1964. Then he studied until 1969 at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Then he attended until 1972, the Navy Officer Candidate School in Pensacola (Florida ). However, a kidney infection ended a possible career in the U.S. Navy. Later, Lewis was still a student at Morehead State University in Kentucky. At that time he was also ordained to the clergy of the Baptist church. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Already in 1967 he supported the election campaign of Governor Louie B. Nunn. In 1971, he ran unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives from Kentucky. Prior to his time in Congress, he also worked for several companies as a sales representative. He also spent five years as a teacher.

After the death of longtime deputies William Huston Natcher Lewis was in the second electoral district of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 24 May 1994. After he was confirmed in each case in the following seven regular congressional elections, he could remain until January 3, 2009 at the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, and two sub-committees. Lewis was also a member of the Republican Policy Committee. In his time as a congressman of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Iraq war and the military mission in Afghanistan fell. In 2008, he opted not to run again.

Ron Lewis is married and father of two children since 1966. He and his family lived in Cecilia.