Biography

11/14/1780 - 04/26/1852

DEWART, Lewis, a Representative from Northumberland County; born, November 14, 1780 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa.; store clerk; postmaster, United States Postal Service, Sunbury (1806-1816); engaged, coal business; director, Danville and Pottsville Railroad; elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1816-1817, 1817-1818, 1818-1819, 1819-1820 and 1820-1821 terms; elected, Pennsylvania State Senate (Special Election, December 1823-1826); elected, United States Congress (1831-1833); reelected to the House as a Democrat for the 1834-1835, 1835-1836, 1836-1837 and 1837-1838 terms; elected, Speaker (1836-1838); elected, chief burgess, Sunbury (1839); elected, Sunbury school board; unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Governor (1840); died, April 26, 1852 in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sunbury Cemetery, Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.