Lewis, Clarke
soldier, merchant, planter, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1840, in Madison county, Ala. At the age of three he accompanied his widowed mother to Noxubee county, Miss. He worked on a farm and attended the county school until the age of sixteen years; when he entered the Somerville institute; took partial course, and subsequently taught a school. He served with distinction throughout the civil war as a private in the confederate army during 1861-65. He then taught school for awhile; for thirteen years during 1866-79 was engaged in merchandising and farming on his own account; and from 1879 until his death was exclusively a planter. In 1877 he was elected to the Mississippi state legislature; and in 1884 was a candidate for congress, but was defeated by the fraction of a vote. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat, and served on several important committees. He died in 1894.