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  Tillman, Lewis
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NameLewis Tillman
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Shelbyville, Tennessee , United States
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Born August 18, 1816
DiedMay 03, 1886 (69 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Sep 27, 2015 04:00am
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InfoTILLMAN, Lewis, (nephew of Barclay Martin), a Representative from Tennessee; born near Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., August 18, 1816; attended the common schools and pursued an academic course; served in the Seminole War as a private; engaged in agricultural pursuits; clerk of the circuit court of Bedford County 1852-1860; colonel of State militia before the Civil War; editor of a newspaper in Shelbyville, Tenn.; clerk and master of the chancery court 1865-1869; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; engaged in agricultural pursuits; died in Shelbyville, Bedford County, Tenn., May 3, 1886; interment in Willow Mount Cemetery.


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  11/02/1880 TN - District 05 Lost 10.56% (-25.74%)
  11/03/1868 TN - District 04 Won 53.02% (+6.03%)
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