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2 unusual facts about Lewis E. Payson


Lewis E. Payson

He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Lands (Fifty-first Congress).

Payson was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1891).


Harry Kennedy

Kennedy would have been forced out of the Senate in 2009 due to term limits, but resigned in October 2008 to take his current position with Lewis Reed's office.

James B. Reed

Reed was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative Lewis E. Sawyer.

Lewis E. Sawyer

Sawyer was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at Hot Springs, Arkansas, May 5, 1923.

Lewis E. Welshofer Jr.

General Mowhoush had eight broken ribs from an earlier beating, allegedly carried out by CIA contractors under Welshofer's direction.

Welshofer claimed he was only following orders which came all the way from the Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld.


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