Lewis Hayden, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLewis Hayden
American abolitionist, lecturer, businessman and politician
Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1811
Date of Death: 07-Apr-1889
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Lewis Hayden
- Lewis Hayden (December 2, 1811 – April 7, 1889) was an African-American leader who escaped with his family from slavery in Kentucky; they moved as refugees to Boston, Massachusetts.
- There he became an abolitionist and lecturer, businessman, and politician.
- Before the American Civil War, he and his wife Harriet Hayden aided numerous fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad, often sheltering them at their house. Hayden was elected in 1873 as a Republican representative from Boston to the Massachusetts state legislature.
- He helped found numerous black lodges of Freemasons.
- Located on the north side of Beacon Hill, the Lewis and Harriet Hayden House has been designated a National Historic Site on the Black Heritage Trail in Boston.
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