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’ve tried to open the door. My knock isn’t that big a sound. But it is like the knock in “The Wizard of Oz.” It set up this echo through the halls until it was heard by everyone.”
—Shannon Faulkner (b. c. 1975)
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone—”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)