# Clarke Lewis

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This article is about the U.S. politician. For the Bahamian athlete, see [Eldece Clarke-Lewis](/source/Eldece_Clarke-Lewis).

Not to be confused with [Lewis and Clark](/source/Lewis_and_Clark_(disambiguation)).

**Clarke Lewis** (November 8, 1840 – March 13, 1896) was an American educator, [Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) veteran, and politician who served two terms as a [United States representative](/source/United_States_representative) from [Mississippi](/source/Mississippi) from 1889 to 1893.

## Biography

He was born in [Huntsville, Alabama](/source/Huntsville,_Alabama). He moved with his mother to [Noxubee County, Mississippi](/source/Noxubee_County,_Mississippi) in 1844 where he attended the district schools and Somerville Institute and also engaged in teaching for several years.

### Civil War

Lewis entered the [Confederate Army](/source/Confederate_Army) in February 1861 and served until the close of the [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War).

### Early career

After the war, he resumed teaching in 1865. He was also employed as a clerk in a store in 1866 and 1867 and engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits 1867–1879.

### Congress

Lewis was a member of the [Mississippi House of Representatives](/source/Mississippi_House_of_Representatives) in 1878. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1893).

### Later career and death

After leaving Congress, he resumed agricultural pursuits. He died near [Macon, Mississippi](/source/Macon,_Mississippi) in 1896 and was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery, Macon, Mississippi.

## Notes

1. ["Obituary for Hon. Clarke Lewis"](http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?action=detail&id=144866). The Macon Beacon. 11 April 1896. Retrieved 7 November 2017.

## References

- [Speech of Hon. Clarke Lewis of Mississippi, Debate in the House of Representatives](https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/308/item/6189) in *The Money Question of the 52nd Congress* (March 22, 1892), accessed November 7, 2017..

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