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Clarke Lewis (November 8, 1840 – March 13, 1896) was an American educator, Civil War veteran, and politician who served two terms as a United States representative from Mississippi from 1889 to 1893.

Biography

He was born in Huntsville, Alabama. He moved with his mother to Noxubee County, Mississippi in 1844 where he attended the district schools and Somerville Institute and also engaged in teaching for several years.

Civil War

Lewis entered the Confederate Army in February 1861 and served until the close of the American Civil War.

Early career

After the war, he resumed teaching in 1865. He was also employed as a clerk in a store in 1866 and 1867 and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits 1867–1879.

Congress

Lewis was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1878. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1893).

Later career and death

After leaving Congress, he resumed agricultural pursuits. He died near Macon, Mississippi in 1896 and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Macon, Mississippi.

Notes

References

• United States Congress. "Clarke Lewis (id: L000276)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Speech of Hon. Clarke Lewis of Mississippi, Debate in the House of Representatives in The Money Question of the 52nd Congress (March 22, 1892), accessed November 7, 2017..