Lewis J. Duncan

{{short description|American socialist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Reverend | name = Lewis J. Duncan | image = Lewis Johnstone Duncan.jpg | caption = Duncan {{circa}} 1911–1914 | office = Mayor of Butte | term_start = May 1, 1911 | term_end = October 6, 1914 | predecessor = Charles P. Nevin | successor = Clarence A. Smith | birth_name = Lewis Johnstone Duncan | birth_date = {{birth date|1857|5|4}} | birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|1|26|1857|5|4}} | death_place = Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = First Socialist mayor of Butte | education = Hanover College | alma mater = | employer = | occupation = Unitarian minister | party = Socialist | other_party = Nonpartisan League | boards = | spouse = {{marriage|Kate Turner Keath|October 26, 1882}} | children = {{flatlist| * Edith * Edwin }} | parents = | relatives = }} '''Lewis Johnstone Duncan''' (May 4, 1857 – January 26, 1936) was an American Unitarian minister and politician who served two terms as mayor of Butte, Montana.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=28 January 1936 |title=Former Butte mayor dies |url=https://mtstandard.newspapers.com/article/the-montana-standard-obituary-for-lewis/69070742/ |work=The Montana Standard |location=Butte |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref> He was Butte's first Socialist mayor,<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=4 April 1911 |title=Big landslide to Socialist ticket |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/354404986/ |work=The Anaconda Standard |location=Anaconda |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref> and the first to be re-elected.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=8 April 1913 |title=Socialists carry Butte, Duncan is re-elected |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/354351783/?match=1&terms=%22Lewis%20Duncan%22%20re-elected |work=The Anaconda Standard |location=Anaconda |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref> He was recalled from office in 1914.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=8 October 1914 |title=Sheriff and mayor ousted at Butte |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/353892038/?match=1&terms=Duncan%20Butte%20%E2%80%9CClarence%20A.%20Smith%E2%80%9D |work=The Conrad Independent |location=Conrad |access-date=18 August 2024}}</ref>

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