Terms of Service

• House, 17th ^{(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)} Legislature
  1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
  Republican
  

(1) County voted largely republican, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Republican, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Wharton, Wharton County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Spanish Camp, Wharton County, Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
(5) Burton of Fort Bend re-elected to the Senate; Dock Lewis of Wharton and A.C. Thompson [Tompkins] of Waller elected to the legislature, all Republicans. "Texas Politics," Weekly Democratic Statesman (Austin, Texas), 11/11/1880, p. 4. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 79th Legislature, R.S., HR 589, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates of 1868-1900. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 81st Legislature, R.S., HCR 81, paying tribute to African American legislators and constitutional convention delegates. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 85th Legislature, R.S., HR 452, celebrating Black History Month and honoring the leadership and vision of African American lawmakers. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Doc (D.) C. Lewis. Born ca. 1843, place unknown; died - date, place unknown. Forever Free: Nineteenth Century African-American Legislators and Constitutional Convention Delegates of Texas 2002.
• Doc Lewis, postoffice Spanish Camp, Wharton County, farmer, Republican. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.
• Hon. Dock Lewis of Egypt, Wharton County, third speaker at "Emancipation Day at Spanish Camp," The Galveston Daily News, 6/24/1885, p. 5, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Biographical sketch, p. 62. D.C. ("Doc") Lewis, birth year 1844, Appendix D. Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Black Leadership in Texas, 1868-1898 2016.

Committee Information

• 17th R.S. - 1881
• Agriculture  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries