Background
Tillman, Lewis was born on August 18, 1816 in near Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States.
United States representative politician
Tillman, Lewis was born on August 18, 1816 in near Shelbyville, Tennessee, United States.
He attended the common schools and pursued an academic course.
Tillman served in the Seminole War as a private and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a circuit court clerk of Bedford County from 1852 to 1860. He was a colonel of the state militia before the Civil War and the editor of a newspaper in Shelbyville.
From 1865 to 1869, he was a clerk and master of the chancery court.
He returned to agricultural pursuits. Tillman died in Shelbyville on May 3, 1886.
He was interred in Willow Mount Cemetery.
Elected as a member of the Republican Party to the Forty-first Congress, Tillman served from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1871, but was not a candidate for renomination in 1870.