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Name
  
Lewis Boyer

Role
  
U.S. representative

Died
  
March 12, 1944


Lewis L. Boyer

Lewis Leonard Boyer (May 19, 1886 – March 12, 1944) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois.

Born on a farm near Richfield, Richfield Township, Illinois, Boyer attended the rural schools. He taught school at Douglas, Franklin, Pin Oak, and Liberty, Illinois from 1904 to 1915, and, while teaching, studied civil engineering. He moved to Quincy, Illinois, in 1915 and engaged in engineering as county superintendent of highways of Adams County, Illinois, from March 1915 until December 1936.

Boyer was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress (January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the State senate in 1940 and 1942. He died in Quincy, Illinois, March 12, 1944. He was interred in Xander Cemetery, Liberty, Illinois. Find A Grave Memorial# 6895814 located at Findagrave.com

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