Lewis Steenrod

Lewis Steenrod
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 21st district
In office
March 4, 1839  March 3, 1843
Preceded byWilliam S. Morgan
Succeeded bydistrict obsolete
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Virginia's 15th district
In office
March 4, 1843  March 3, 1845
Preceded byRichard W. Barton
Succeeded byWilliam Gay Brown, Sr.
Member of the Virginia Senate
from the Ohio, Hancock, Brooke district
In office
December 5, 1853  December 6, 1857
Preceded byThomas Sweeney
Succeeded byAlfred Caldwell
Personal details
Born(1810-05-27)May 27, 1810
Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), US
DiedOctober 3, 1862(1862-10-03) (aged 52)
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, US
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseMary Neldon
Professionlawyer, politician

Lewis Steenrod (May 27, 1810 October 3, 1862) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia, who helped secure Congressional authorization of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge but who later opposed secession of what became West Virginia months before his death.