Lewis Hanback

Lewis Hanback (March 27, 1839 – September 7, 1897) was a U.S. representative from Kansas.

Born in Winchester, Illinois, Hanback attended the common schools and Cherry Grove Seminary in Knox County, Illinois for three years. He taught a school in Morgan County, Illinois, in 1860 and 1861. During the Civil War he enlisted as a private in the Illinois Volunteer Infantry and was later promoted to brigade inspector. He studied law in Albany, New York and he returned to Illinois and from there moved to Topeka, Kansas where he was admitted to the bar in 1865 and began practicing law.

Hanback was elected as Justice of the Peace in 1867. He was Probate judge of Shawnee County from 1868 to 1872. He served as assistant chief clerk of the State house of representatives, assistant secretary of the State senate in 1877, and assistant United States district attorney of Kansas 1877–1879. He then served as Receiver of public moneys at Salina, Kansas.

Hanback was elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the Fiftieth Congress, he resumed the practice of law after that. He died in Kansas City, Kansas, September 7, 1897, He was interred in Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas.