Barbour Lewis

Barbour Lewis (1818 - 1893) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for Tennessee's 9th congressional district.

He was born in Alburgh, Vermont on January 5, 1818. He attended the common schools and graduated from Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1846. He taught school in Mobile, Alabama, graduated from the law department of Harvard University, was admitted to the bar, and practiced.

In 1860, Barbour Lewis was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. He enlisted in the Union Army on August 1, 1861 and served as captain of Company G, First Missouri Volunteers. He was appointed by the military authorities as judge of the civil commission court at Memphis, Tennessee in 1863. He was discharged from the service on November 15, 1864. He was president of the commissioners of Shelby County, Tennessee from 1867 to 1869.

He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third Congress, and he served from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875. He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1874 to the Forty-fourth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in Memphis and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1878. He was appointed to the United States land office in Salt Lake City, Utah, and he resigned in 1879. He moved to Whitman County, Territory of Washington, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising. He died in Colfax, Washington on July 15, 1893. He was interred in Colfax Cemetery.

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