Texas Legislators: Past & Present

John McLanahan Lewis

Full Name: John McLanahan Lewis, Sr.
Birth date: 1802
Death date: March 8, 1862

Census of 1850 - John M. Lewis, Montgomery, Montgomery County, age 48, born circa 1802 in Virginia, planter.
Census of 1860 - John Lewis, Montgomery County, age 51, born circa 1809 in Alabama, farmer. FamilySearch . 1860 1850
Gen. John McClanahan Lewis Sr., birth date 1802, death date 1862 in Montgomery County. Includes portraits, report from Texas State Gazette 9/10/1853, p. 26. No grave marker photo. Find a Grave .
Possibly LEWIS, JOHN M. Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in "Civil War Vet Returns to Willis, Becomes Active in Politics," 3/15/2017. "John Lewis Sr. died March 8, 1862 and was buried near the Elmwood home." Montgomery County Courier .
Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.