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James Hamilton Lewis was the son of John Christopher and Julia (Hilbern) Lewis. He was born on May 18, 1863 in Danville, Virginia, United States, while his mother was en route from the family home in Augusta, Georgia to Richmond, Virginia, where his father, a major in the Confederate Army, lay critically ill with Civil War injuries.
Growing up in Augusta, young Lewis attended a local academy, the Houghton School, and later studied for a short time at the University of Virginia.
Lewis read the law in Savannah, Georgia, and was admitted to the bar, but soon afterwards, about 1885, he went west to Seattle, Washington Territory, where he began a legal practice. Finding little demand at first for his services, he also taught rhetoric at the University of Washington for two years and worked for several months as a stevedore. Meanwhile he had entered politics and had been elected to his first office, as a member of the last territorial legislature of Washington, 1887-1888. In 1890 he presided over the first Democratic convention in the new state of Washington, and in 1896 he was elected to Congress as representative-at-large. Defeated when he ran again in 1898, he entered military service through the Washington state militia and served in the Spanish-American War as an inspector general on the staffs of Gen. John R. Brooke in Cuba and Gen. Frederick D. Grant in Puerto Rico and later in the Philippines.
In 1899 he was the Democratic candidate for United States Senator from Washington. Lewis moved in 1903 to Chicago, which thereafter remained his legal home, and began the practice of corporate law. Politics, however, was in his blood, and in 1905, having taken a leading part in the campaign which elected Edward F. Dunne as mayor of Chicago, Lewis was rewarded with the post of corporation counsel. In 1908 he unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois. Five years later, after the nationwide Democratic victories in 1912, he was elected by the legislature as United States Senator. In the Senate Lewis was chosen to the newly created post of majority whip--a tribute to his political abilities. He thus became responsible for rounding up Democratic votes in support of President Wilson's New Freedom program.
In the Republican upsurge of 1918, Lewis was defeated for reelection to the Senate by Medill McCormick. Two years later he lost the race for governor of Illinois, although running 200, 000 votes ahead of his party. Returning to the practice of law, he gave special attention to international questions, acting, among other cases, as counsel for American concessionaires in Turkish oil fields and for American interests in Mexico. No novice in international matters, he had earlier served on two diplomatic missions, a conference in 1899 between Canada and the United States on customs at the northwest boundary, and a conference at London in 1914 on international regulations for safety at sea.
Remaining active in Democratic politics, Lewis in 1930 ran again for the Senate, this time against Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of Mark Hanna and widow of the man who had defeated him in 1918. After a skillful campaign in which he called for repeal of the federal prohibition amendment and affected a polite but subtly belittling gallantry toward his opponent, Lewis won by a margin of more than two to one. Six years later he was returned by a plurality nearly as large. In his second period of senatorial service he was restored to his old post of whip (1933) and enjoyed important committee assignments, including the Military Affairs and Foreign Relations committees.
Lewis suffered from asthma in his later years and in 1935 became seriously ill with pneumonia while on a trip to Russia. He died of a coronary thrombosis in Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C. , following a severe asthmatic attack. A state funeral was held in the Senate chamber, and his body was placed with military honors in the Abbey Mausoleum at Fort Meyer, Virginia, adjoining the Arlington National Cemetery.
Lewis was the first to hold the title of Whip in the United States Senate and was one of few politicians to represent two states in the United States Congress. He was credited with negotiating a $28, 000, 000 loan for Mexico in 1924. A mission to Europe in 1918 to look into military matters on behalf of the Wilson administration brought him the United States Military Order of the World War and decorations from Great Britain, Belgium, and France.
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Lewis supported woman suffrage and during World War I advocated government ownership of the nation's railroads. While in Senate, he gave general support to the program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, though he broke with him to oppose the St. Lawrence seaway and the World Court. He favored a strong navy and criticized European nations for their failure to pay their war debts.
To the general public, Lewis was best known for his elegant appearance and manners. He dressed in richly hued, perfectly tailored clothes, including a white waistcoat, billowing cravat, gloves, and walking stick. His flowing red hair, carefully parted "pink whiskers, " and beribboned eyeglasses completed the picture. His oratorical speeches were replete with literary references; his manners were the acme of politeness, although in senatorial repartee his dignified humor could on occasion be sharply barbed. This somewhat dandified role Lewis seems to have deliberately assumed early in his political career as a means of self-advertisement. Although in later years he may have found his reputation for eccentricity a handicap, he never "stepped out of character, " even among friends.
Lewis was married on November 28, 1896 to Rose Lawton Douglas of Sylvania, Georgia. They had no children.
