Genealogy Richard Remmé, The Hague, Netherlands » John Fulton Lewis (1922-2006)

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1. "http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=delamontagne," supplied by Stewart, 10 jan 2016., Gedcom : rootsweb, Descendants of Jean Mousnier de la MONTAGNE (1595-1670), compiled by Lois Stewart Society of Descendants of Johannes de la Montagne [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE\,]
2. Obituary, Monday, August 14, 2006

   John Fulton LewisWriter, Broadcaster
   John Fulton Lewis, 84, former director of media relations for the American Farm Bureau Federation, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 3 at Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, Va. He lived in Reedville.  Mr. Lewis spent 63 years as a reporter, editor, broadcaster and public relations man. He worked for a wire service, newspaper, radio and television stations, newsletters and the government. He also wrote two books. His career began in 1943 at the Associated Press in Baltimore, his home town. He ran weekly newspapers in Southern Maryland, reported on agriculture and politics for the Baltimore Sun and was a Baltimore radio and television news director. In the 1950s, Mr. Lewis joined the Maryland Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation. During the Kennedy administration, he spent a year as a speechwriter for Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. By 1961, Mr. Lewis had embarked on a freelance career, producing and writing radio programs on farm topics, including 20 one-hour shows about private property. He produced the "NBC Farm Review" and the American Security Council's "Washington Report of the Air," which aired five days a week on 1,100 stations.  Between 1969 and 1975, he was coordinating editor at the House Committee on Internal Security, formerly the House Un-American Activities Committee. He then returned to the American Farm Bureau Federation as director of media relations, a job he held until 1989.  Mr. Lewis officially retired but continued to work as a reporter for the Delmarva Farmer and the New Jersey Farmer newspapers, and he published a small newspaper called the Community Forum in Reedville. He also was co-editor of the Lincoln Review Letter, which focused on concerns of black conservatives; the Trumpet Call newsletter, which dealt with private property rights; and Reservation Report, a newsletter on Native American legislation and policies.  He wrote "Goodwill: For the Love of People," (1977) a history of Goodwill Industries of America, and "China's Great Convulsion, 1894-1924: How Chinese Overthrew a Dynasty, Fought Chaos and Warlords, and Still Helped the Western Allies Win World War I" (2004).
   His marriages to Mary Benson, Joyce Lewis and Elaine Gasparri ended in divorce.
   Survivors include two children from his first marriage, Christopher Lewis of Silver Spring and Nancy Lewis of Hartland, Vt.; three children from his second marriage, Susan Darnell of Norwell, Mass., Scott Lewis of Manassas and Stephen Lewis of Highlands Ranch, Colo.; and 13 grandchildren.

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• Birthday May 29, 1922
• Day of death August 3, 2006

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• Also died on August 3

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