E. John Ellis
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Ezekiel John Ellis (October 15, 1840 - April 25, 1889) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.
Born in Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, Ellis attended private schools in Covington and Clinton, Louisiana, and Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana from 1855 to 1858. He was graduated from the law department of the Louisiana State University at Pineville (now at Baton Rouge), Louisiana, in 1861. During the Civil War joined the Confederate States Army and was commissioned a first lieutenant. He was promoted to captain in the Sixteenth Regiment, Louisiana Infantry, and served two years, when he was captured and held as a prisoner of war on Johnsons Island in Lake Erie until the end of the war. He was admitted to the bar of Louisiana in 1866 and commenced practice in Covington, Louisiana. He served as member of the State senate 1866-1870.
Ellis was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1885). He served as chairman of the Committee on Mississippi Levees (Forty-fourth Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884. He resumed the practice of his profession in Washington, D.C., where he died April 25, 1889. He was interred in the Ellis family cemetery at "Ingleside," near Amite, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.
