Researching Fred Lewis

Fred Ewing Lewis was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Collegiate and Commercial Institute in New Haven, Connecticut, and Muhlenberg College in Allentown. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1888 and commenced practice of his profession in Allentown. He served as Mayor of Allentown in 1896 and 1902. He organized and was president of the Merchants’ National Bank and was president of the Dime Savings & Trust Co. in Allentown.

Lewis was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third Congress. After his time in Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in banking. He again served as Mayor of Allentown from 1932 to 1936. He died in Allentown. His interment is in Union-West End Cemetery.

Lewis is Jewish, and was born in The Bronx, New York. Both of his parents played handball, and he learned to play the game outdoors in the Bronx. He initially played one-wall handball, and entered his first tournament at the age of eight. He competed on his high school swimming team.

He received a master's degree in education at the University of Miami in 1972. He won two U.S. National Collegiate Singles Championships.

Lewis is a six-time U.S. Handball Association National Four-Wall Handball Singles Champion (1972, 1974–76, 1978, and 1981). He is also a three-time National Three-Wall Singles Champion (1974, 1977, and 1978). He was named 1970s "Handball Player of the Decade" by the National Handball Association.

He made the finals of the National Open championship 14 consecutive years. He won 16 titles as a professional.

In 1998, he created Yes2Kids, a handball club for children. In 2003, he was head coach of the handball team at the University of Arizona. In 2008, he remarried his ex-wife, as they had reconciled after 16 years.