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LEWIS, Dixon Hall, senator, born in Hancock county, Georgia, 10 August, 1802; died in New York city, 25 October, 1848. He was educated at the College of South Carolina, studied law, and removed to Alabama, where he practised his profession. After serving two terms in the legislature he was elected in 1828 to congress as a state rights Democrat, and held his seat till his appointment by Governor Benjamin Fitzpatrick to the United States senate in 1840, to fill the unexpired term of William R. King. He was reelected in 1846, and served until his death. Mr. Lewis was a forcible speaker and a sound lawyer. His politics were of the extreme state rights school, and he advocated nullification and secession. His stature was enormous and his weight 430 pounds. Furniture was made for his special use, and he was compelled to engage two seats in railway and other public conveyances. On one occasion a steamer on which he was a passenger was wrecked, but, fearing to imperil the others, he refused to enter the boat till all the passengers were saved, and for a time was in imminent danger.
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