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title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Lewis Richmond</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/George_B._Loring" title="George B. Loring">George B. Loring</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_General_Assembly" title="New Jersey General Assembly">New Jersey General Assembly</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson Co.</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1878–1878</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">February 7, 1837<br />Audley, <a href="/wiki/Clarke_County,_Virginia" title="Clarke County, Virginia">Clarke County, Virginia</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">September 3, 1892<span style="display:none">(1892-09-03)</span> (aged 55)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken, New Jersey</a>, US</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Lucy Balmain Ware </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1858; died 1866)<wbr /></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"></li></ul> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Mary Picton Stevens Garnett </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1869)<wbr /></div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Lewis_(1767%E2%80%931839)" title="Lawrence Lewis (1767–1839)">Lawrence Lewis</a> (grandfather)<br /><a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Parke_Custis_Lewis" title="Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis">Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis</a> (grandmother)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">9, including <a href="/wiki/Esther_Maria_Lewis_Chapin" title="Esther Maria Lewis Chapin">Esther</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Lorenzo Lewis<br />Esther Maria Cox</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Edward Parke Custis Lewis's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png/128px-Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="34" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png/192px-Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png/256px-Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis_signature.png 2x" data-file-width="668" data-file-height="177" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Edward Parke Custis Lewis</b> (February 7, 1837 – September 3, 1892) was a Confederate Army colonel, lawyer, legislator, and diplomat who served as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Portugal">United States Minister to Portugal</a> from 1885 to 1889. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lewis was born at Audley, his family's plantation in <a href="/wiki/Clarke_County,_Virginia" title="Clarke County, Virginia">Clarke County, Virginia</a>, in 1837. He was a son of Lorenzo Lewis (1803–1847) and Esther Maria (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Cox) Lewis (1804–1885). His siblings included George Washington Lewis (1829–1885), Lawrence Fielding Lewis (1834–1857), John Redman Coxe Lewis (1834–1898), and Henry Llewellyn Dangerfield Lewis (1841–1893).<sup id="cite_ref-Cox1912_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox1912-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis's paternal grandparents were <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Lewis_(1767%E2%80%931839)" title="Lawrence Lewis (1767–1839)">Lawrence Lewis</a>, a nephew of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Parke_Custis_Lewis" title="Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis">Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis</a>, a granddaughter of <a href="/wiki/Martha_Washington" title="Martha Washington">Martha Washington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His maternal grandparents were Dr. John Redman Coxe, a Philadelphia physician who was a pioneer in vaccination, and Sarah Cox, whose sister Rachel Cox married the inventor <a href="/wiki/John_Stevens_(inventor,_born_1749)" title="John Stevens (inventor, born 1749)">John Stevens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cox1912_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox1912-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis was educated at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Virginia" title="University of Virginia">University of Virginia</a> and studied law, but pursued life as a planter at his Virginia estate. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, he joined the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate States Army</a>, eventually rising to the rank of <a href="/wiki/Colonel" title="Colonel">colonel</a>. He served as <a href="/wiki/Aide-de-camp" title="Aide-de-camp">aide-de-camp</a> under General <a href="/wiki/John_R._Chambliss" title="John R. Chambliss">John R. Chambliss</a> and as brigade inspector under General <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Fitzhugh_Lee" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry Fitzhugh Lee">William Henry Fitzhugh Lee</a> (his second cousin, since Lee's maternal grandfather, <a href="/wiki/George_Washington_Parke_Custis" title="George Washington Parke Custis">George Washington Parke Custis</a>, was his great-uncle). He was captured and made prisoner of war twice, confined for a total of fifteen months at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Delaware" title="Fort Delaware">Fort Delaware</a> and <a href="/wiki/Camp_Chase" title="Camp Chase">Camp Chase</a>. After the war, he returned to his Virginia plantation.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewisiana_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewisiana-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the death of his first wife in 1866, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Hoboken,_New_Jersey" title="Hoboken, New Jersey">Hoboken, New Jersey</a> and opened a law office, which he maintained until his death.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lewis was elected as a <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_General_Assembly" title="New Jersey General Assembly">New Jersey General Assembly</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson County</a> in 1878. He was also a delegate to the <a href="/wiki/1880_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1880 Democratic National Convention">1880 Democratic National Convention</a> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Democratic_State_Committee" title="New Jersey Democratic State Committee">New Jersey Democratic State Committee</a> in 1884, when he was active in the <a href="/wiki/1884_United_States_presidential_election" title="1884 United States presidential election">presidential campaign</a> of <a href="/wiki/Grover_Cleveland" title="Grover Cleveland">Grover Cleveland</a>. After the election of Cleveland, Lewis was appointed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Portugal" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Ambassador to Portugal">Minister Resident/Consul General to Portugal</a> on April 2, 1885. He served until June 14, 1889, when he returned to Hoboken to resume his legal practice.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lewisiana_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewisiana-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Lewis was first married on March 23, 1858, to Lucy Balmain Ware (1839–1866) of <a href="/wiki/Berryville,_Virginia" title="Berryville, Virginia">Berryville, Virginia</a>, and they had five children, though only one survived past infancy.<sup id="cite_ref-Cox1912_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox1912-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Lucy Ware Lewis (1866–1944), who married Charles Treadwell <a href="/wiki/McCormick_family" title="McCormick family">McCormick</a> (1861–1932)</li></ul> <p>On June 1, 1869, in <a href="/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a>, he married his second wife, Mary Picton (<a href="/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née">née</a> Stevens) Garnett (1840–1903), the widow of Virginia politician <a href="/wiki/Muscoe_Russell_Hunter_Garnett" class="mw-redirect" title="Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett">Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett</a> and daughter of <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Augustus_Stevens" title="Edwin Augustus Stevens">Edwin Augustus Stevens</a>. Mary was also his second cousin, since her paternal grandmother, Rachel Cox, was the sister of his maternal grandmother, Sarah Cox. Also, her brother <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Augustus_Stevens,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr.">Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr.</a> later married Lewis's niece, Emily Contee Lewis, in 1879. Together, Edward and Mary had four children, including:<sup id="cite_ref-Cox1912_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cox1912-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>Edwin Augustus Stevens Lewis (born 1870), who carried on his father's legal practice in Hoboken</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Esther_Maria_Lewis_Chapin" title="Esther Maria Lewis Chapin">Esther Maria Lewis</a> (born 1871), who married Charles Merrill Chapin and was a prominent socialite.<sup id="cite_ref-Lewis_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lewis-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>In 1892, Lewis died of heart disease at his Hoboken residence at the age of 55.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried at <a href="/wiki/Princeton_Cemetery" title="Princeton Cemetery">Princeton Cemetery</a> in <a href="/wiki/Princeton,_New_Jersey" title="Princeton, New Jersey">Princeton, New Jersey</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Edward_Parke_Custis_Lewis&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 223. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780806308319" title="Special:BookSources/9780806308319"><bdi>9780806308319</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Lewis+of+Warner+Hall&rft.pages=223&rft.pub=Genealogical+Publishing+Company&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=9780806308319&rft.aulast=Sorley&rft.aufirst=Merrow+Egerton&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Db_scAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AEdward+Parke+Custis+Lewis" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lewisiana-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Lewisiana_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lewisiana_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0_MwAAAAMAAJ"><i>Lewisiana, Or, The Lewis Letter</i></a>. 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