But at 45, the new Liberal premier is leading a revolution of another sort.
He was the first Liberal premier of Ontario in 42 years.
Louis Robichaud, the Liberal premier since 1960, called the election early by surprise.
To date, Lewis is the only past Liberal Premier who has not led his party to an election.
Since then a federalist Liberal provincial premier, Jean Charest, has been elected.
His uncle William Melville Martin served as a Liberal premier for the province.
His background includes work for Liberal Premier of Ontario David Peterson.
He retained the leadership and declared that he would fight the next election against the Liberal premier, Henry Bolte.
However, the new Liberal Premier, Ted Baillieu, has declared that his government will shut down the pipeline.
Greiner, the state's Liberal Premier, had called the election 10 months sooner than required and had entered the campaign confident that he would increase his majority.