LEWIS, Dixon Hall (1802-1848)
Democrat of Alabama 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1843-1849
Served in House 1829-1844
Biography
A Representative and a Senator from Alabama; born on Bothwick plantation, Dinwiddie County, Va., August 10, 1802; moved to Hancock County, Ga., with his parents in 1806; graduated from Mount Zion Academy and from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1820; moved to Autauga County, Ala., the same year; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1823, and commenced the practice of law in Montgomery, Ala.; member, State house of representatives 1826-1828; elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and to the succeeding Congress, reelected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third Congress and to the succeeding Congress, and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses, and served from March 4, 1829, to April 22, 1844, when he resigned, having been appointed Senator; chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses); appointed and subsequently elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William R. King; reelected in 1847 and served from April 22, 1844, until his death in New York City on October 25, 1848; chairman, Committee on Finance (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on Retrenchment (Twenty-ninth Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
