John L. Lewis

John L. Lewis led the United Mine Workers for forty years, presiding over violent organizing campaigns in Appalachia, the breakaway founding of the CIO from the AFL in 1935, and the wartime coal strikes that brought him into direct confrontation with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He purchased the 614 Oronoco Street Place 614 Oronoco Street Federal-style house built in 1785 by Philip Richard Fendall on land acquired from the Lee family. Occupied by a rotating cast of Lee family members through the nineteenth century … in 1937 as a Washington-area residence convenient to the federal labor regulators and Capitol Hill politics that increasingly dominated his union’s affairs. ^[1] Source 1 Wikipedia, Lee–Fendall House Website

He lived at the Oronoco Street house with his wife Myrta until her death in 1942 and then alone, hosting union meetings, Senate visitors, and the press. He died there on June 11, 1969. His daughter Kathryn Lewis later deeded the house to a preservation trust; it has operated as a museum since 1974.