ASBURY FRANCIS LEVER 



Representative from the Seventh South Carolina District who has had charge of the Weeks 

 bill in the Committee on Agriculture, from which it has just been favorably reported. 



Mr. Lever was born at Springhill, Lexington County. South Carolina, January 5, 1875; grad^ 

 uated at Newberry College, 1899, and from the law department of Georgetown University, 

 1899, when he was admitted to the bar of his state. He was private secretary of Hon, J. William 

 Stokes, whom he succeeded in Congress in 1900, upon Mr, Stokes's death. Mr. Lever was a 

 member of the state legislature in 1900, resigning to make the run for Congress, to which he 

 has been four times reelected. 



