James T. Lewis

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1862 portrait of Lewis by William F. Cogswell

James Taylor Lewis (October 30, 1819 – August 5, 1904) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the ninth Governor of Wisconsin.

Lewis was born in Clarendon, New York, and in 1845 he settled in Columbus, Wisconsin. He held the positions of district attorney and county judge, and he was elected to terms in both the Wisconsin State Assembly and the State Senate. He also served as the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1854 to 1856, Wisconsin secretary of state from 1862 to 1864, and governor from 1864 to 1866, making him the last Wisconsin governor to hold the office during the Civil War.^[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by Timothy Burns	Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin 1854–1856	Succeeded by Arthur MacArthur, Sr.
Preceded by Louis Harvey	Secretary of State of Wisconsin 1862–1864	Succeeded by Lucius Fairchild
Preceded by Edward Salomon	Governor of Wisconsin 1864–1866	Succeeded by Lucius Fairchild

v t e Governors of Wisconsin

Territory (1836–1848)	Dodge Doty Tallmadge Dodge

State (since 1848)	Dewey Farwell Barstow MacArthur Bashford Randall Harvey Salomon Lewis Fairchild Washburn Taylor Ludington Smith Rusk Hoard Peck Upham Scofield R. La Follette Davidson McGovern Philipp Blaine Zimmerman Kohler Sr. P. La Follette Schmedeman P. La Follette Heil Goodland Rennebohm Kohler Jr. Thomson Nelson Reynolds Knowles Lucey Schreiber Dreyfus Earl Thompson McCallum Doyle Walker

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Wisconsin

Holmes Beall Burns Lewis MacArthur Campbell Noble Salomon Spooner Pound Pettit Parker Bingham Fifield Ryland Jonas Baensch Stone Davidson Connor Strange Morris Dithmar Comings Huber O'Malley Gunderson Ekern Goodland Rennebohm Smith Knowles Nash Knowles J. Olson Lucey J. Olson Schreiber R. Olson Flynn McCallum Farrow Lawton Kleefisch

v t e Secretaries of State of Wisconsin

Territory	Horner Slaughter Dunn Field Floyd Catlin

State	McHugh Barstow Robinson Gray Jones Harvey Lewis Fairchild Allen Breese Doyle Warner Timme Cunningham Casson Froehlich Houser Frear Donald Hull Hall F. Zimmerman Dammann F. Zimmerman Allis Wise R. Zimmerman La Follette Phillips La Follette

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 14019005 LCCN: n95060983

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