Robert Steele Lewis (August 15, 1856 – May 23, 1956) was a

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politician who served as the seventh

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under Governor John Burke. Lewis also served in the

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from 1901 to 1905.

Biography

Robert S. Lewis was born in

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, on August 15, 1856. He married Alice Carpenter in 1879, and they had three children. Lewis died in

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, on May 23, 1956, at the age of 99, only few months shy of his 100th birthday, making him the oldest statewide officer in the state's history.

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