Elijah B. Lewis

Elijah Banks Lewis was a U.S. representative from Georgia.
Born in Coney, Crisp County, Georgia, Lewis attended the common schools of Dooly and Macon Counties, Spalding Seminary, Spalding, Georgia, and a business school in Macon, Georgia.
He moved to Montezuma, Georgia, in 1871 and engaged in banking and mercantile pursuits.
He served as a member of the State senate in 1894 and 1895.
Lewis was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress.
He engaged in his former business activities until his death in Montezuma, Georgia, on December 10, 1920.
He was interred in Felton Cemetery.