{{Short description|American politician}} {{more footnotes needed|date=March 2013}} <!-- This article was automatically created by User:polbot from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000281. The prose may be stilted, and there may be grammatical and Wikification errors. Please improve in any way you see fit. -->{{Use American English|date = October 2019}} {{Use mdy dates|date = October 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Elijah B. Lewis | image = Elijah B. Lewis (Georgia Congressman).jpg | district = 3rd | state = Georgia | term_end = March 3, 1909 | term_start = March 4, 1897 | death_date = {{death date and age|1920|12|10|1854|3|27}} | death_place = Montezuma, Georgia, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date|1854|3|27}} | birth_place = Coney, Georgia, U.S. | predecessor = Charles R. Crisp | successor = Dudley Mays Hughes | party = Democratic }}

'''Elijah Banks Lewis''' (March 27, 1854 – December 10, 1920) was a U.S. representative from Georgia.

Born in Coney, Crisp County, Georgia, Lewis attended the common schools of Dooly and Macon Counties, Spalding Seminary, Spalding, Georgia, and a business school in Macon, Georgia. He moved to Montezuma, Georgia, in 1871 and engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits. He served as a member of the State senate in 1894 and 1895.

Lewis was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1909).<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=16 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. He engaged in his former business activities until his death in Montezuma, Georgia, on December 10, 1920. He was interred in Felton Cemetery.

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