Lewis Beach
Lewis Beach was an American politician and a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. In all, he served three terms in office before his death in 1886.
Biography
Born in New York City, Beach graduated from Yale Law School in 1856.Beach was Admission to [the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar] in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879.
Congress
Elected as a Democrat to the 47th [United States Congress|Forty-seventh] and Forty-eighth Congresses, Beach was a U. S. Representative for the fourteenth district of New York from March 4, 1881, to March 3, 1885. He was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress for the fifteenth district and served from March 4, 1885, until his death on August 10, 1886. He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the Forty-ninth Congress.He published a history of Cornwall, New York, in 1873.