Lawrence Lewis (politician)

Lawrence Lewis
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 1st district
In office March 4, 1933 – December 9, 1943
Preceded by	William R. Eaton
Succeeded by	Dean M. Gillespie
Personal details
Born	(1879-06-22)June 22, 1879 St. Louis, Missouri
Died	December 9, 1943(1943-12-09) (aged 64) Washington, D.C.
Political party	Democratic Party
Alma mater	Harvard University Harvard Law School

Lawrence Lewis (June 22, 1879 – December 9, 1943) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Lewis attended the public schools in Evanston, Illinois, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Pueblo, Colorado, and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He graduated from Harvard University in 1901. He engaged in newspaper and magazine work in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado from 1901 to 1906. He served as assistant instructor in English, Harvard University from 1906 to 1909. He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1909. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Denver, Colorado. He served as member of Colorado Civil Service Commission 1917-1918. Private in the Seventeenth Observation Battery, Field Artillery, Central Officers' Training School, October to December 1918. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress.

Lewis was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-third and five succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1933, until his death. He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1933 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Harold Louderback, judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He died in Washington, D.C., on December 9, 1943. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

References

• United States Congress. "Lawrence Lewis (id: L000291)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

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Members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
1st district	Pence Shafroth Bonynge Rucker Kindel Hilliard Vaile White Eaton Lewis Gillespie Carroll Rogers McKevitt Schroeder DeGette
2nd district	Bell Hogg Haggott Martin Seldomridge Timberlake Cummings Hill Dominick Brotzman McVicker Brotzman Wirth Skaggs Udall Polis
3rd district	Keating Hardy Martin Burney Chenoweth Marsalis Chenoweth Evans Kogovsek Strang Campbell McInnis Salazar Tipton
4th district	Taylor Rockwell Aspinall Johnson Brown Allard Schaffer Musgrave Markey Gardner Buck
5th district	Armstrong Kramer Hefley Lamborn
6th district	Schaefer Tancredo Coffman
7th district	Beauprez Perlmutter
At-large	Belford Patterson Belford Symes Townsend Brooks Cook Taylor Keating
Territory	Bennet Bradford Chilcott Bradford Chaffee Patterson