Lewis P. Featherstone

Lewis P. Featherstone

Lewis Porter Featherstone (July 28, 1851 - March 14, 1922) was a U.S. Representative from Arkansas.

Born in Oxford, Mississippi, Featherstone attended the common schools and Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee.He engaged in planting in Shelby County, Tennessee from 1872 to 1881.He moved to St. Francis County, Arkansas, and continued as a planter.He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1887 and 1888.

Featherstone was elected president of the State Wheel (a farmers' organization) in 1887 and reelected in 1888.He successfully contested as a Labor Party candidate the election of William H. Cate to the Fifty-first Congress and served from March 5, 1889, until March 3, 1891.He was an unsuccessful candidate on the Union Labor ticket for reelection in 1892 to the Fifty-second Congress.He engaged in railroad building and in development of iron resources of Texas.He was commissioned captain in the First Regiment, United States Volunteers (Immune), in 1898.He died in Longview, Texas, March 14, 1922.He was interred in Mission Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas.

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