# Lewis Condict

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{{Short description|American physician, politician (1772–1862)}}
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|name            = Lewis Condict
|image           = 
|office          = Member of the<br>[U.S. House of Representatives](/source/U.S._House_of_Representatives)<br>from [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey)
|term_start      = March 4, 1811
|term_end        = March 3, 1817
|preceded        = [William Helms](/source/William_Helms)
|succeeded       = [Charles Kinsey](/source/Charles_Kinsey)
|constituency    = {{ushr|NJ|AL|At-large district}} (1811–13)<br>{{ushr|NJ|1|1st district}} (1813–15)<br>{{ushr|NJ|AL|At-large district}} (1815–17)
|term_start1     = October 9, 1821
|term_end1       = March 3, 1833
|preceded1       = [Charles Kinsey](/source/Charles_Kinsey)
|succeeded1      = [Thomas Lee](/source/Thomas_Lee_(New_Jersey_politician))
|constituency1   = {{ushr|NJ|AL|At-large district}}
|office2         = Speaker of the<br>[New Jersey General Assembly](/source/New_Jersey_General_Assembly)
|term_start2     = 1807
|term_end2       = 1809
|term_start3     = 1837
|term_end3       = 1838
|office4         = Member of the<br>[New Jersey General Assembly](/source/New_Jersey_General_Assembly)
|term_start4     = 1805
|term_end4       = 1809
|term_start5     = 1837
|term_end5       = 1838
|office6         = [Morris County](/source/Morris_County%2C_New_Jersey) Sheriff
|term_start6     = 1801
|term_end6       = 1803
|birth_name      = Lewis Condict
|birth_date      = {{birth date|1772|3|3}}
|birth_place     = [Morristown](/source/Morristown%2C_New_Jersey), [Province of New Jersey](/source/Province_of_New_Jersey), [British America](/source/British_America)
|death_date      = {{death date and age|1862|5|26|1772|3|3}}
|death_place     = [Morristown](/source/Morristown%2C_New_Jersey), [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey), U.S.
|spouse          =  
|education       = [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania)
|party           = [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States))<br>[Jacksonian](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States))<br>[Anti-Jacksonian](/source/Anti-Jacksonian)<br>[Whig](/source/Whig_Party_(United_States))<br>[Constitutional Union](/source/Constitutional_Union_Party_(United_States))
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'''Lewis Condict''' (March 3, 1772 – May 26, 1862) was a medical doctor, and the [United States representative](/source/United_States_representative) from [New Jersey](/source/New_Jersey). He was the 24th [President of the Medical Society of New Jersey](/source/President_of_the_Medical_Society_of_New_Jersey).

==Biography==
Born in [Morristown](/source/Morristown%2C_New_Jersey) in the [Province of New Jersey](/source/Province_of_New_Jersey), he attended the common schools, graduated from the [medical department of the University of Pennsylvania](/source/Perelman_School_of_Medicine) in [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia) in 1794, and commenced practice in Morristown. He was [sheriff](/source/sheriff) of [Morris County](/source/Morris_County%2C_New_Jersey) from 1801 to 1803 and was a member of the commission for adjusting the boundary line between the States of [New York](/source/New_York_(state)) and New Jersey in 1804. He was a member of the [New Jersey General Assembly](/source/New_Jersey_General_Assembly) from 1805 to 1809 and served as speaker the last two years.

Condict was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1817. He was president of the [Medical Society of New Jersey](/source/Medical_Society_of_New_Jersey) in 1816 and 1819. Again elected as a Democratic-Republican in a special election to the Seventeenth Congress, he was then re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress. He was re-elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and was re-elected as an [Anti-Jacksonian](/source/Anti-Jacksonian) candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from October 9, 1821, to March 3, 1833. While in Congress he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fourteenth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fourteenth Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832, and was elected trustee of [Princeton College](/source/Princeton_College) in 1827, and served in this capacity until 1861, when he resigned. He was one of the incorporators of the [Morris and Essex Railroad](/source/Morris_and_Essex_Railroad) Co. and became its first president in 1835. In 1837 and 1838 he was again a member of the State house of assembly, and served as speaker. He was a [presidential elector](/source/presidential_elector) on the [Whig](/source/USWhig) ticket in [1840](/source/U.S._presidential_election%2C_1840). He was succeeded by [William Wright](/source/William_Wright_(United_States_politician)) as president of the railroad in 1843. In 1860, his name was on the letter that issued the call for the [Constitutional Union Party](/source/Constitutional_Union_Party_(United_States)) Convention. He died in Morristown; interment was in the [cemetery of the Presbyterian Church](/source/Presbyterian_Church_Cemetery%2C_Morristown).

==Legacy==
Lewis Condict was a nephew of [Silas Condict](/source/Silas_Condict), a [Continental Congress](/source/Continental_Congress)man from New Jersey.

==References==
{{CongBio|C000668}}

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Category:Presidents of the Medical Society of New Jersey
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Category:19th-century United States representatives
Category:19th-century members of the New Jersey Legislature

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