Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."
- Occupation
- military officer, lawyer, diplomat, novelist
- Position held
- ambassador of the United States to the Ottoman Empire, member of the State Senate of Indiana, Governor of the Territory of New Mexico
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 10, 1827
