David P. Lewis

{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use American English|date=March 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = David P. Lewis.jpg | name = David P. Lewis | order = 23rd [[List of Governors of Alabama|Governor of Alabama]] | term_start = November 17, 1872 | term_end = November 24, 1874 | lieutenant = [[Alexander McKinstry]] | predecessor = [[Robert B. Lindsay]] | successor = [[George S. Houston]] | office2 = Deputy from [[Alabama]]<br />to the [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States|Provisional Congress<br />of the Confederate States]] | term_start2 = February 4, 1861 | term_end2 = April 29, 1861 | predecessor2 = ''New constituency'' | successor2 = [[Nicholas Davis Jr.]] | birth_name = David Peter Lewis | birth_date = {{birth date|1820|05|18}}{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} | birth_place = [[Charlotte County, Virginia]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1884|07|03|1820|05|18}} | death_place = [[Huntsville, Alabama]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Maple Hill Cemetery (Huntsville, Alabama)|Maple Hill Cemetery]], Huntsville, Alabama | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | other_party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] }} '''David P. Lewis''' (born '''David Peter Lewis'''; May 18,{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} 1820 – July 3, 1884) was a lawyer and politician who served as the 23rd [[governor of Alabama]] from 1872 to 1874 during the [[Reconstruction era]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Wiggins |first=Sarah Woolfolk |date=2014 |title=David P. Lewis |url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1170 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]] |publisher=Alabama Humanities Foundation}}</ref> He was also a Deputy from [[Alabama]] to the [[Provisional Congress of the Confederate States]], serving from February until April 1861, when he resigned from office. He was a Unionist. He was the last Republican to serve as Governor of Alabama until [[H. Guy Hunt]] was elected in 1986.<ref name="LoC">{{cite book |editor-last=Root |editor-first=Elihu |editor-link=Elihu Root |date=1904 |title=Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 |url=https://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwcc.html |volume=1 |location=Washington |publisher=Government Printing Office |page=159 |lccn=05012700}}</ref>

==Biography== In 1861, David P. Lewis was a Deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, representing Alabama.<ref name="LoC" /> He was a delegate to the [[1868 Democratic National Convention]]. In 1869, he joined the Republican Party. As a well-known [[North Alabama]] Unionist who nevertheless supported the [[Confederate States of America]], he was an attractive candidate for governor. He won decisively over [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] Thomas Herndon. The [[Alabama gubernatorial election, 1872|1872 election]] was highly controversial, and conflicting election returns resulted in the seating of two different legislatures controlled by each party. During his term, unsuccessful attempts were made to pass [[civil rights]] legislation that would have barred discrimination by common carriers, hotels, schools, and theaters. The impact of the [[Panic of 1873]], as well as the civil rights controversies, led to Lewis' defeat in [[Alabama gubernatorial election, 1874|1874]]. Lewis later unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the federal bench. Disillusioned by politics, he returned to the practice of law in [[Huntsville, Alabama|Huntsville]], where he is interred at [[Maple Hill Cemetery (Huntsville, Alabama)|Maple Hill Cemetery]]. He never married and died at age 64 in Huntsville, Alabama.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=riBfDwAAQBAJ&dq=lamkin+mississippi&pg=PA145 | isbn=9780807149416 | title=Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress | date=September 1975 | publisher=LSU Press }}</ref>

==See also== * [[List of governors of Alabama]]

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