- Source: Samuel W. Lewis (politician)
Samuel W. Lewis (born c. 1845) was a Canadian-born American schoolteacher and state legislator in Mississippi. He represented Madison County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1884-1885.
He was born in Canada circa 1845 and arrived in the U.S. around 1868 and naturalized as a U.S. citizen September 14, 1876. He had a wife called Ida and they had three children. He was a Republican.
He and other “colored” House members made vigorous protest of accusation of corruption against them from the Watchman newspaper.
He was chairman of the Republican Executive Committee for the Seventh District.
See also
African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
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