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Senate Years of Service: 1913-1919; 1931-1939 Party: Democrat; Democrat
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LEWIS, James Hamilton, a Representative from Washington and a Senator from Illinois; born
in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., May 18, 1863; moved with his parents to
Augusta, Ga., in 1866; attended Houghton school in that city and the University
of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law in Savannah, Ga.; admitted to the
bar in 1882; moved to the Territory of Washington in 1885 and commenced the
practice of law in Seattle; member, Washington Territorial legislature
1887-1888; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4,
1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate in 1898 for reelection; served
during the Spanish-American War as inspector general with rank of colonel in
Puerto Rico; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States Senator in
1899; moved to Chicago, Ill. in 1903 and resumed the practice of law;
corporation counsel for Chicago 1905-1907; unsuccessful candidate for Governor
in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from
March 26, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1918; Democratic whip 1913-1919; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of State (Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses); unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1920; practiced international
law; again elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected
in 1936 and served from March 4, 1931, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
April 9, 1939; Democratic whip 1933-1939; chairman, Committee on Expenditures
in Executive Departments (Seventy-third through Seventy-sixth Congresses);
funeral services were held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; original
interment in the Abbey Mausoleum, adjoining Arlington National Cemetery,
Arlington, Va.; remains removed and reinterred in unknown location.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Lewis, James
Hamilton.
The Two Great Republics, Rome and the United States. Chicago:
Rand, McNally & Co., 1913; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses. 76th Cong., 1st sess., 1939. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1939.
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