PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PRINTING

DEPOSITED BY THE
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Roll of deceased Members, read by Mr. Roger M. Calloway,

reading clerk of the House..

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Address by Mr. Thomas A. Jenkins, of Ohio‒‒‒‒

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Address by Mr. James P. McGranery, of Pennsylvania..........

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Address by Mr. Warren R. Austin, of Vermont..

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Address by Mr. Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky_
Address by Mr. Tom Connally, of Texas_---
Address by Mr. James M. Slattery, of Illinois_-_-

Proceedings in the Senate:

Prayer by the Chaplain.

Tribute by Mr. Scott W. Lucas, of Illinois_-

Tribute by Mr. Alben W. Barkley, of Kentucky..

Tribute by Mr. Charles L. McNary, of Oregon_-_

Proceedings in the House:

Tribute by Mr. Adolph J. Sabath, of Illinois_-
Tribute by Mr. Ralph E. Church, of Illinois_-_.

Tribute by Mr. Warren G. Magnuson, of Washington.......
Tribute by Mr. Arthur W. Mitchell, of Illinois_-_

Funeral services in the Senate.-----

Tribute by Mr. Theodore G. Bilbo, of Mississippi----

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Biography

JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS was born in Danville, Pittsylvania County, Va., May 18, 1863; moved with his parents to Augusta, Ga., in 1866; attended Houghton College in that city and the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; studied law in Savannah, Ga., at the Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio, and at the Baylor University, Waco, Tex.; was admitted to the bar in 1882; moved to the Territory of Washington in 1885 and commenced the practice of law in Seattle; attached to the Joint High Commission on Canadian and Alaska Boundaries at London in 1889 and 1890 for presentation of Pacific Northwest claims; member of the Territorial senate; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1892; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); unsuccessful candidate in 1898 for reelection as a Fusionist; served during the Spanish-American War as inspector general with the rank of colonel on the staffs of General Brooke in Cuba and Gen. Frederick D. Grant in Porto Rico; United States commissioner to regulate customs laws between Canada and the northwest United States in 1899; was the nominee of his party, who were in the minority, for United States Senator in 1899; unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for Vice President in 1896 and 1900; moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1903 and resumed the practice of law; corporation counsel for Chicago, Ill., 1905-1907; unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1908; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate, and served from March 26, 1913, to March 3, 1919; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918; commissioner representing the United States Senate at London to execute treaty laws for safety at sea in 1914; did special war work in France in 1918 and was knighted by the King of Belgium and the King of Greece; resumed the practice of his profession in Chicago, Ill.; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois in

1920; attendant attaché at the international conferences at Genoa (Italy) in 1921, Lausanne (Switzerland) in 1922, and Geneva in 1925, before the League of Nations on American claims; resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.; again elected to the United States Senate in 1930, reelected in 1936, and served from March 4, 1931, until his death, in Garfield Hospital, Washington, D. C., April 9, 1939; interment in Abbey Mausoleum, Arlington, Va.