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Doc C. Lewis

Born 1843

United States

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Doc C. Lewis (1843 – ?) was a farmer and state legislator in Texas. A Republican, he served from 1881 to 1883 during the Seventeenth Texas Legislature in the Texas House of Representatives. He was one of four African American members of the Texas House at the time.

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