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Robert Jacob Lewis (December 30, 1864 – July 24, 1933) was a Republican member of the
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Formative years

Robert J. Lewis was born in
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on December 30, 1864. He attended the public schools of
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and graduated from the high school in 1883. Lewis taught in the public schools until September 1889. He graduated from the law department of
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in 1891 and was admitted to the
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, bar in June 1891 and to the bar of
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, August 1891. He commenced practice in York.


Political career

Lewis was elected school controller of York in 1893 and reelected in 1897 and 1903. He was elected city solicitor in 1895. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1902. He returned to the practice of law.


Death and interment

Lewis died in
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in 1933. His remains were cremated and the ashes were placed in the Iris Columbarium Mausoleum in
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Sources


The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lewis, Robert Jacob 1864 births 1933 deaths Pennsylvania lawyers Politicians from York, Pennsylvania Yale Law School alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives