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American politician
David P. Lewis
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In office
November 17, 1872 ? November 24, 1874
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Lieutenant
| Alexander McKinstry
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Preceded by
| Robert B. Lindsay
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Succeeded by
| George S. Houston
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In office
February 4, 1861 ? April 29, 1861
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Preceded by
| New constituency
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Succeeded by
| Nicholas Davis Jr.
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Born
| David Peter Lewis
(
1820-05-18
)
May 18, 1820
[
citation needed
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Charlotte County, Virginia
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Died
| July 3, 1884
(1884-07-03)
(aged 64)
Huntsville, Alabama
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Resting place
| Maple Hill Cemetery
, Huntsville, Alabama
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Political party
| Republican
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Other political
affiliations
| Democratic
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David P. Lewis
(born
David Peter Lewis
; May 18,
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citation needed
]
1820 ? July 3, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who served as the
23rd governor of Alabama
from 1872 to 1874 during the
Reconstruction era
.
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He was also a Deputy from
Alabama
to the
Provisional Congress of the Confederate States
, serving from February until April 1861, when he resigned from office. He was a Unionist. He was the last Republican to serve as Governor of Alabama until
H. Guy Hunt
was elected in 1986.
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Biography
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In 1861, David P. Lewis was a Deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, representing Alabama.
[2]
He was a delegate to the
1868 Democratic National Convention
. In 1869, he joined the Republican Party. As a well-known
North Alabama
Unionist who nevertheless supported the
Confederate States of America
, he was an attractive candidate for governor. He won decisively over
Democrat
Thomas Herndon. The
1872 election
was highly controversial, and conflicting election returns resulted in the seating of two different legislatures controlled by each party. During his term, unsuccessful attempts were made to pass
civil rights
legislation that would have barred discrimination by common carriers, hotels, schools, and theaters. The impact of the
Panic of 1873
, as well as the civil rights controversies, led to Lewis' defeat in
1874
. Lewis later unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the federal bench. Disillusioned by politics, he returned to the practice of law in
Huntsville
, where he is interred at
Maple Hill Cemetery
. He never married and died at age 64 in Huntsville, Alabama.
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