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Lewis, John William

lawyer, congressman, was born near Greensburg, Ky.

He was a member of the republican state central committee of Kentucky from 1878 to 1891, and was chairman of the same in the state paign of 1887; and was the republican candidate for elector for his district in the presidential campaign of 1892. He has been often elected special judge of Marion circuit court, and served as special judge in circuit courts of Marion, Taylor and other counties of the judicial district. He was nominated for representative in congress by the republican convention, June, 1894, and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.