Biography

05/16/1798 - 03/09/1871

LEWIS, Ellis, a Representative from Bradford and Tioga Counties; born, May 16, 1798 in Lewisberry, York County, Pa.; honorary Medical Doctorate, Philadelphia College of Medicine (now Thomas Jefferson Medical College); honorary doctorate of laws, Jefferson College (now Washington and Jefferson College) and Transylvania University, 1848; engaged, newspaper printing and publishing; deputy attorney general, Lycoming and Tioga Counties (1820, 1824-1827); deputy attorney general, Lycoming County (1827-1829); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1832-1833 term; appointed, Pennsylvania Attorney General (1833); appointed, president judge, Eighth Judicial District, Pennsylvania (1833-1842); appointed, judge, Second Judicial District, Pennsylvania (1843-1851); professor of law, Franklin College (now Franklin and Marshall College) (1847-1848); elected, judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1851-1857; chief justice, 1854-1857); commissioner, Commission to Revise the Criminal Code of Pennsylvania (1858); died, March 9, 1871 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.