Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — A Senatorial Giant. [ARTICLE]

A Senatorial Giant.

Dixon H. Lewis was the largest statesman this country ever owned. He was Senator from Alabama away back in the thirties, and beside him David Davis would have been the merest stripling. He weighed 500 pounds wdien he was thin, and goodness knows how much when fat. He was a marvel to behold, and in his time one of the most popular of men. History is the preserver of godd deeds and the average of had*