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Affiliation | Whig |
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Name | Levi Lincoln |
Address | Worcester, Massachusetts , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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October 25, 1782
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Died | May 29, 1868
(85 years)
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Contributor | Thomas Walker |
Last Modifed | RBH Jul 31, 2015 05:48pm |
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Info | LINCOLN, Levi, (son of Levi Lincoln [1749-1820] and brother of Enoch Lincoln), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Worcester, Mass., October 25, 1782; attended Leicester Academy, Leicester, Mass., and was graduated from Harvard University in 1802; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession at Worcester in 1805; served in the State senate in 1812 and 1813; member of the State house of representatives 1814-1822 and served as speaker in 1822; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820; elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1823; appointed associate justice of the State supreme court in 1824; Governor of Massachusetts 1825-1834; declined reelection; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Davis; reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from February 17, 1834, to March 16, 1841, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses); collector of the port of Boston, by appointment of President Harrison, 1841-1843; served in the State senate in 1844 and 1845 and was president of that body in the latter year; first mayor of Worcester in 1848; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864; died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., May 29, 1868; interment in the Rural Cemetery.
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