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Lewis B. Sturges

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	Lewis B. Sturges
office	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's at-large congressional district
term_start	1805
term_end	1817
predecessor	Calvin Goddard
successor	Samuel B. Sherwood
birth_date
birth_place	Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Norwalk, Ohio, U.S.
alma_mater	Yale College
parents	Jonathan Sturges
Deborah Lewis Sturges
relations	Oliver Sturges (brother)

Deborah Lewis Sturges

Jonathan Sturges (nephew) Lewis Burr Sturges (March 15, 1763 – March 30, 1844) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut from 1805 to 1817. He was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, the son of Jonathan Sturges, who also served in the House.

Early life

Sturges was born in Fairfield, Connecticut, on March 15, 1763. He was a son of Jonathan Sturges and Deborah ( Lewis) Sturges. His siblings included Oliver Sturges, Jonathan Sturges, Barnabas Lothrop Sturges and Priscilla Sturges.

His paternal grandparents were surveyor Samuel Sturges and, his second wife, Ann ( Burr) Sturges. Through his brother Barnabas Lothrop Sturges, he was uncle to prominent businessman Jonathan Sturges.

Sturges graduated from Yale College in 1782, engaged in mercantile pursuits in New Haven, and returned to Fairfield, Conn., in 1786.

Career

He served as clerk of the probate court for the district of Fairfield from 1787 to 1791, and was a member of the State house of representatives from 1794 to 1803. Sturges was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of Calvin Goddard and Roger Griswold. He was reelected to the Tenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from September 16, 1805, to March 3, 1817. He later moved to Norwalk, Ohio, where he died in 1844.

Personal life

Stuges was married to Kezia Taylor Stiles (1760–1785), a daughter of Rev. Ezra Stiles and Elizabeth ( Hubbard) Stiles, in 1784. After her death in 1785, he married Charlotte Sturges (1771–1837).

Sturges died in Norwalk, Ohio, on March 30, 1844, and was buried in St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard there.

References

(1878). "A General History of the Burr Family in America: With a Genealogical Record from 1570 to 1878". E.W. Sackett & Bro..
"STURGES, Lewis Burr 1763 – 1844". [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]].
(1 January 2014). "The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795". [[UNC Press Books]].
(1881). "History of Fairfield County, Connecticut: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers". J.W. Lewis & Company.

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