Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I pootihia a Lewis hei mema Manapori o te New Jersey General Assembly mai i te Kaunihera o Hudson i te 1878. He mema anō hoki ia ki te Huihuinga ā-Motu ā-Rōpū i te tau 1880
He mema hoki o te Komiti Kaunihera Manapori o New Jersey i te tau 1884, i a ia e kaha ana ki te kaupapa perehitini a Grover Cleveland. Whai muri i te pooti o Cleveland, i tohua a Lewis hei Minita Kaitiaki / Kaunihera Matua ki Portugal i te Paenga-whāwhā 2, 1885. I mahi ia tae noa ki te Pipiri 14, 1889, i te wa i hoki mai ai ia ki Hoboken ki te whakahou i tana mahi ture.