Rensselaer Morse Lewis (November 9, 1820 – December 16, 1888) was an American merchant from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, who served a single one-year term in 1873 as a Liberal Reform Party member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin.
[4] In 1872, he was elected to serve in the 26th Wisconsin Legislature representing the 2nd Fond du Lac County Assembly district (consisting of the City of Fond du Lac itself, and the Towns of Fond du Lac, Lamartine and Oakfield)[5] as a candidate of the newly formed Reform Party, with 1,754 votes to 1,725 for Republican incumbent Elihu Colman.
Lewis was assigned to the standing committees on ways and means, and on engrossed bills.
In 1859, his wife had her leg broken in a train accident aboard the Chicago and North Western Railway.
[7] Together, they were the parents of: Lewis died in Fond du Lac on December 16, 1888.