L. Heisler Ball
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United States Senator from Delaware |
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In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Willard Saulsbury, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | T. Coleman du Pont |
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In office March 2, 1903 – March 3, 1905 |
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| Preceded by | George Gray |
| Succeeded by | Henry A. du Pont |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Delaware's At-large district |
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In office March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903 |
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| Preceded by | Walter O. Hoffecker |
| Succeeded by | Henry A. Houston |
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September 21, 1861 New Castle County, Delaware, U.S. |
| Died | October 18, 1932 (aged 71) New Castle County, Delaware, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Residence | Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
Delaware College University of Pennsylvania |
| Profession | physician |
| Religion | Methodist |
Lewis Heisler Ball (September 21, 1861 – October 18, 1932) was an American physician and politician from Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party and served as U.S. Representative from Delaware and two terms as U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was known by his middle name.
Ball was born in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, the son of John Ball and Sarah (Baldwin) Ball. He attended the Rugby Academy at Wilmington, Delaware, and graduated from the Delaware College at Newark, Delaware in 1882. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia in 1885 and began the practice of medicine at Brandywine Springs, near Wilmington in 1887. He married Katherine Springer Justis on November 14, 1893.
At the turn of the twentieth century Delaware was going through a political transformation. Most obvious to the public was the bitter division in the Republican Party caused, in part, by the ambitions of J. Edward Addicks for a seat in the U.S. Senate. A gas company industrialist, he spent vast amounts of his own fortune to build a Republican Party, with that purpose in mind. Largely successful in heavily Democratic Kent County and Sussex County, he financed the organization of a faction that came to be known as "Union Republicans". Meanwhile he was making bitter enemies of the New Castle County "Regular Republicans", many of whom considered him nothing more than a carpetbagger from Philadelphia.
Ball was a "Regular Republican", and an outspoken opponent of Addicks. As such he was elected State Treasurer of Delaware from 1899 to 1901. He was then elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1900. and served with the Republican majority in the 57th Congress from March 4, 1901 until March 3, 1903 during the administrations of U.S. Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt.
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