Biography

1803 - 05/19/1883


LEWIS, James J., a Representative from Delaware County; born, 1803 in Pennsylvania; farmer; elected as a Whig to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1849 term, reelected to the House for the 1850 term; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (1855-1857); died, May 19, 1883 in Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania; interred, Newtown Square Friends Meeting House Burial Ground, Newtown Square, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.


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