Lewis Summers (1778–1843), attorney and public official, was a native of Fairfax County. He studied law as a young man and was a marshal in nearby Alexandria before moving around 1810 to Ohio and establishing a legal practice. Summers represented Gallia County in the Ohio House of Representatives, 1812–13, and he sat for Gallia and Scioto counties in the Ohio Senate, 1813–14. In the latter year he returned to Virginia and settled permanently in Kanawha County, which he represented in the House of Delegates, 1817–18, and at a state constitutional convention, 1829–30. A strong proponent of internal improvements, Summers served on the Virginia Board of Public Works for a number of years. He was judge of the General Court for the district including Kanawha County from 1819 until his death at White Sulphur Springs (George W. Atkinson, History of Kanawha County [1876], 250–2; “Lewis Summer’s Journal of a Tour from Alexandria, Virginia, to Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1808,” Southern Historical Magazine 1 [1892]: 49–81, esp. 50; PTJ description begins Julian P. Boyd, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1950– , 41 vols. description ends , 37:303; Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio [Zanesville, 1812], 4; Journal of the Senate of the State of Ohio [Chillicothe, 1813], 4; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends , 290, 354; JSV description begins Journal of the Senate of Virginia description ends [1818–19 sess.], 148 [26 Feb. 1819]; [1843–44 sess.], 28 [7 Dec. 1843]; Richmond Enquirer, 8 Sept. 1843).