Burwell Boykin Lewis (1837-1885) represented Alabama in an at-large district and later the Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. Congress. Previously, he served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and in the Alabama House of Representatives. He left Congress to be president of the University of Alabama (UA) in 1880.
Burwell Boykin Lewis
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