Robert S. Lewis
Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota
In office
1907–1911
GovernorJohn Burke
Preceded byDavid Bartlett
Succeeded byUsher L. Burdick
Member of the North Dakota Senate
In office
1901–1905
Personal details
Born(1856-08-15)August 15, 1856
Iuka, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedMay 23, 1956(1956-05-23) (aged 99)
Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Political partyNorth Dakota Republican Party
Spouse
Alice Carpenter
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(m. 1879)​
Children3
OccupationBanker
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Robert Steele Lewis (August 15, 1856 – May 23, 1956) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the seventh Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Governor John Burke. Lewis also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1901 to 1905.[1][2]

Biography

Robert S. Lewis was born in Iuka, Mississippi, on August 15, 1856.[3]

He married Alice Carpenter in 1879, and they had three children.[4]

Lewis died in Fargo, North Dakota, on May 23, 1956, at the age of 99,[5] only few months shy of his 100th birthday, making him the oldest statewide officer in the state's history.

Notes

  1. ↑ North Dakota Blue Book, 1989
  2. ↑ Hennessy, W. B. (1910). History of North Dakota, Embracing a Relation of the History of the State from the Earliest Times Down to the Present Day, Including the Biographies of the Builders of the Commonwealth. The Bismarck Tribune Company. p. 118. Retrieved February 8, 2023 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ Hyde, C. W. G.; Stoddard, William, eds. (1901). History of the Great Northwest and Its Men of Progress. The Minneapolis Journal. p. 189. Retrieved February 8, 2023 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Hennessy, W. B. (1910). History of North Dakota, Embracing a Relation of the History of the State from the Earliest Times Down to the Present Day, Including the Biographies of the Builders of the Commonwealth. The Bismarck Tribune Company. p. 118. Retrieved February 8, 2023 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Robert S. Lewis, 99, Former N.D. Lawmaker, Dies". The Bismarck Tribune. Fargo. AP. May 23, 1956. p. 16. Retrieved February 8, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.


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