Political Career
During the later years of his deanship, Lewis’s attention was diverted and all but consumed by the politics of the Progressive Republican movement. A confidant of Theodore Roosevelt, Lewis chaired the platform committee for Roosevelt’s failed run for President on the Bull Moose ticket in 1912. In his most politically impassioned (or naïve) maneuver, Lewis ran for Pennsylvania governor in 1914 on a straight Progressive platform, a dalliance which forced his resignation from the deanship but took him no closer to the governor’s mansion. He remained on the Law School faculty until 1924.
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“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
—Auberon Waugh (b. 1939)