The Halls and Lewis
- Bolling Hall (1767–1836), Georgia State Representative 1800–1802 1804–1806, U.S. Representative from Georgia 1811–1817. Uncle of Dixon H. Lewis.
- Dixon H. Lewis (1802–1848), Alabama State Representative 1826, U.S. Representative from Alabama 1829–1844, U.S. Senator from Alabama 1844–1848. Nephew of Bolling Hall.
NOTE: Dixon H. Lewis was also son-in-law of South Carolina and Alabama legislator John Archer Elmore and brother-in-law of U.S. Senator Franklin Harper Elmore, Kansas Territory Supreme Court Justice Rush Elmore, South Carolina Treasurer Benjamin F. Elmore, and Alabama Secretary of State Albert S. Elmore.
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Famous quotes containing the words halls and/or lewis:
“Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.”
—Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 2 (1991)
“If kangaroos had no tails, they would topple over seems to me to mean something like this: in any possible state of affairs in which kangaroos have no tails, and which resembles our actual state of affairs as much as kangaroos having no tails permits it to, the kangaroos topple over.”
—David Lewis (b. 1941)