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Lewis E. Eliason

American politician (1850-1919)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6536510 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lewis E. Eliason (September 15, 1850 – May 2, 1919) was an American politician who was the fifth lieutenant governor of Delaware, from January 16, 1917, until his death on May 2, 1919. A Democrat, he served under Republican governor John G. Townsend Jr., as the two offices were elected independently at the time.

He was the state's only lieutenant governor to die in office.

Editorial summary

“Lewis E. Eliason” enters the record as american politician (1850-1919). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lewis, Eliason and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1850, 1919, 1917—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1850-09-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lewis, Eliason and American.
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Why this record matters

“Lewis E. Eliason” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lewis, Eliason and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6536510. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1850, 1919 and 1917.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lewis E. Eliason” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.