Sydney Clinton LEWIS

Background

LEWIS, Sydney Clinton Son of Isaac Newton and Mary (Settle) Lewis.

Education

Common Schools

Career

Taught in public schools, Trigg Company, Kentucky, 1882. Taught in Stewart Company, Tennessee for 4 years Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court, Stewart Company, 1886-1902. Chairman, Democratic Executive Committee, Stewart Company, for past 20 years.

Member State Democratic Executive Committee, 1908-1912. Member Governor Rye’s Staff with rank of Colonel, 1915-1919. Served in State Senate, twenty-third District, 1927-1928.

President, Dover Bank and Trust Company, for past 20 years Admitted to the bar in 1886 and has been in active practice since. Senior member, Lewis and Brandon, 1895-1908. Senior member, Lewis and Stout, 1912-1917.

Senior member, Lewis and Lewis.

Membership

• Member, Board of Legal Advisers, Stewart Company during war. Owner of Stewart Company Times. Member of F. & Master of Arts. K of Philisophy; Chamber of Commerce.

Connections

Spouse Minnie Meadows, October 3, 1900, Ripley, Tennessee.