Lewis Burr Sturges (March 15, 1763 – March 30, 1844) was a member of the

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from

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from 1805 to 1817. He was born in Fairfield, Conn., the son of

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, who also served in the House. Sturges graduated from

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in 1782, engaged in mercantile pursuits in

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, and returned to Fairfield, Conn., in 1786. 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

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to the Ninth Congress to fill in part the vacancies caused by the resignations of Calvin Goddard and

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. 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

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, where he died in 1844. He is buried in St. Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard there.

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