Lewis M. Stevens

In 1947, he was appointed chief counsel of the United States Senate's Banking and Currency Committee, which was then investigating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, an independent agency of the federal government created during the Great Depression.

That mission was fulfilled in 1951, when city voters adopted the new charter Stevens and the Movement had drafted.

[3] Later that year, Stevens ran for one of the at-large seats on the reformed city council.

[5] In 1955, he declined to run for reelection, and returned to his law practice and charitable organizations, which included memberships on the boards of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia, and Lincoln University, among others.

He lived for four more months, but ultimately succumbed to illness and died in Temple University Hospital on July 15, 1963.