{{Short description|American politician (1840–1889)}}

<!-- {{Multiple issues| < < {{refimprove|date=January 2012}} < {{lead too short|date=January 2012}} < {{citation style|date=January 2012}} }} --> {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = E. John Ellis |image = EJohnEllis.jpg |caption = Library of Congress |state = Louisiana |district = [[Louisiana's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] |term_start = March 4, 1875 |term_end = March 3, 1885 |predecessor = [[Lionel Allen Sheldon|Lionel A. Sheldon]] |successor = [[Michael Hahn]] |office2 = Member of the [[Louisiana Senate]] |term2 = 1866-1870 |birth_name = |birth_date = {{birth date|1840|10|15}} |birth_place = [[Covington, Louisiana]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1889|4|25|1840|10|15}} |death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]] |resting_place = Ellis Family Cemetery, [[Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana]] |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] |profession = Lawyer |signature = Signature of Ezekiel John Ellis.png |allegiance = {{flag|Confederate States of America}} |branch = {{army|CSA}} |unit = 16th Louisiana Infantry |rank = [[File:Confederate_States_of_America_Captain.png|35px]] [[Captain (Confederate Army)|Captain]] }}

'''Ezekiel John Ellis''' (October 15, 1840 – April 25, 1889) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Louisiana]]. He fought in the [[American Civil War]] for the [[Confederate States of America]] from 1861&ndash;1863; during the war he was promoted to the rank of [[captain (United States)|captain]]. After the war, Ellis entered politics and was elected to the Louisiana State Senate from 1866-1870, then served in Congress from 1875-1885.<ref name="USC" />

==Early life and military career== Born in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, son of Ezekiel Parke Ellis and Tabitha Emily Warner, Ellis attended private schools in Covington and Clinton, Louisiana, and [[Centenary College of Louisiana]] (when it was located in [[Jackson, Louisiana]]) from 1855 to 1858. In 1861 he graduated from the law department of the [[Louisiana State University]] at Pineville (now at Baton Rouge), Louisiana.<ref name="USC" />

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] he joined the [[Confederate States Army]] and was commissioned a first lieutenant. Ellis was promoted to captain in the Sixteenth Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, and served two years until he was captured at the [[Battle of Missionary Ridge]], Tennessee, about November 25, 1863. He was held as a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until the end of the war. While a prisoner, he wrote a diary entitled ''A Retrospect''.<ref name="LTU" />

==Political career and later life== He was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1866 and commenced practice in [[Covington, Louisiana]]. He served as member of the State senate 1866-1870.

Ellis was elected from [[Louisiana's 2nd congressional district]] as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1885).

He served as chairman of the Committee on Mississippi Levees (Forty-fourth Congress) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884.

He resumed the practice of his profession in [[Washington, D.C.]]

He died there April 25, 1889 and was interred in the Ellis family cemetery at "Ingleside," near Amite, [[Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana]].

==Notes== <references> <ref name="LTU">{{cite web|last1=Magee|first1=Bruce|title=E. John Ellis|url=http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/encyclopedia/e/ellis.html|publisher=Louisiana Tech University|access-date=14 October 2017}}</ref> <ref name="USC">{{cite web|title=Ellis, Ezekiel John, (1840 - 1889)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000134|publisher=United States Congress|access-date=14 October 2017}}</ref> </references>

==References== {{CongBio|E000134}} Retrieved on 2009-04-10

==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} *{{Find a Grave|7205764|access-date=2009-04-10}}

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