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Show COLONEL JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS, THE NEW SENATOR FROM ILLINOIS SENATOR JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS. Col. James Hamilton Lewis, senator from Illinois, took hie seat when the senate convened in extraordinary session ses-sion April 7. and he is easily the most picturesque member of the upper cham he: Senator Lewis has always heea picturesque. Horn in Georgia ofa good southern family, he went to Seattle many years ago. Finding nothing else to do and being under the necessity of doing H)iuethiog that he might live, Lewis worked as a 'longshoreman. It was not long before he had a tawrme and soon he found himself a prominent citizen of Washington. He was seat to congress and then hecsme a national character. Yet he was not content with being a big citizen in one state. He moved to ' hicago, and within a few years had become one of the most important eiti ens of IIMnoia important enough to become the choice of hfe party at a popular pop-ular primary for the United States sea-ate. |