district military_blank predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place party military_data term_end birth_date term_start rank article_title state name restingplace
6th at-large engagement '' district created '' david perley lowe erastus j. turner william a. harris 07 september 1897 winchester , illinois kansas city , kansas republican civil war march 3 , 1887 march 3 , 1885 march 27 , 1839 march 4 , 1885 march 4 , 1883 brigade inspector lewis hanback
 kansas kansas lewis hanback topeka cemetery , topeka , kansas
lewis hanback

lewis hanback -lrb- march 27 , 1839 - september 7 , 1897 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from kansas .
born in winchester , illinois , hanback attended the common schools and cherry grove seminary in knox county , illinois , for three years .
he taught school in morgan county , illinois , in 1860 and 1861 .
during the civil war he enlisted as a private in the illinois volunteer infantry and was promoted to brigade inspector .
he studied law in albany , new york .
he returned to illinois and from there moved to topeka , kansas .
he was admitted to the bar in 1865 and practiced .
hanback was elected justice of the peace in 1867 .
he was probate judge of shawnee county from 1868-1872 .
he served as assistant chief clerk of the state house of representatives .
he served as assistant secretary of the state senate in 1877 .
he served as assistant united states district attorney of kansas 1877-1879 .
he served as receiver of public moneys at salina , kansas .
hanback was elected as a republican to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses -lrb- march 4 , 1883 -- march 3 , 1887 -rrb- .
he was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the fiftieth congress .
he resumed the practice of law .
he died in kansas city , kansas , september 7 , 1897 .
he was interred in topeka cemetery , topeka , kansas .
