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:
“I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humaneness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.”
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“The first month of his absence
I was numb and sick
And where he’d left his promise
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The seed, the seed of love was sick.”
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