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American politician, newspaper editor, and farmer

Louie Egan Lewis (July 20, 1893 – September 8, 1968) was an American politician, newspaper editor, and farmer.

Born on a farm in Christopher, Illinois, Lewis was a farmer, bookkeeper, and newspaper editor. He taught school and then owned the Sesser Herald and later the Christopher Progressive with his brother, Thurlow Girard Lewis. He was a Democrat. Lewis served on the Franklin County, Illinois board was president of the Sesser, Illinois School Board. Lewis then served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1933 to 1939 and was Speaker of the House from 1937 to 1939. He then served as State Treasurer from 1939 to 1941. In 1940, he unsuccessfully ran as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Illinois. Lewis later worked for the Illinois Division of Motor Vehicles. He died of a heart attack in Christopher, Illinois.

Notes

'Illinois Blue Book 1939-1940,' Biographical Sketch of Louie E. Lewis, pg. 79
'Louis Lewis, 75, Dies From Heart Attack,' Chicago Tribune, September 8, 1968 section 4, pg. 22
Chronicling Illinois-the Louie Lewis papers

Party political offices
Preceded byJohn C. Martin	Democratic nominee for Treasurer of Illinois 1938	Succeeded byHomer Mat Adams
Preceded byJohn Henry Stelle	Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Illinois 1940	Succeeded byEdward C. Hunter
Political offices
Preceded byJohn C. Martin	Treasurer of Illinois 1939–1941	Succeeded byWarren Wright

v t e Illinois state treasurers
Thomas McLaughlin Field Hall Dement Gregory Whiteside Carpenter Moore J. Miller Butler Starne Beveridge G. Smith Bates Rutz Ridgway Rutz J. Smith Rutz J. Smith Gross Tanner Becker Wilson R. Ramsay E. Ramsay Wulff Hertz Whittlemore Williamson Busse Small Smulski Russel Mitchell Ryan Russel Small Sterling E. Miller Nelson Custer Kinney Custer Barrett Martin Stelle Martin Lewis Wright Stratton Becker Rowe O. Smith Stratton Hoffman Wright Hoffman Lohman Lorenz Scott Stevenson Woodford Dixon D. Smith Cosentino Donnewald Cosentino Quinn Topinka Giannoulias Rutherford Frerichs

v t e Speakers of the Illinois House of Representatives
Messinger McLean Alexander Mather Blackwell McLean Ewing Jenkins Semple Ewing Hackleton Richardson Cloud Casey Breese Reynolds Turner Holmes Morrison Cullom Buckmaster Fuller Corwin W. Smith Cullom Haines Shaw James Thomas Collins Haines Calhoun Matthews James Miller Cochran Crafts Meyer Cochran Curtis Sherman John Miller Shurtleff Adkins McKinley Shanahan Dahlberg Shanahan Scholes Shanahan Roe Devine L. Lewis Cross Schnackenberg Green Powell Wood Powell J. Lewis Touhy R. Smith Walker Blair Redmond Ryan Telcser Madigan Daniels Madigan Welch

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