Levi Lincoln, Jr.

Levi Lincoln Jr. ( born October 25, 1782 Worcester, Massachusetts, † May 29, 1868 ) was an American politician and from 1825 to 1834 Governor of Massachusetts. Between 1834 and 1841 he represented his state in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Levi Lincoln was a member of a famous political family. His father was Levi 1808-1809 Governor of Massachusetts. His brother Enoch was 1827-1829 Governor of Maine, as well as his great-nephew Frederick Robie 1883-1887. Moreover, he was also distantly related to President Abraham Lincoln. The younger Levi Lincoln visited the Leicester Academy, and then to 1802, Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree, he started working in 1805 in Worcester as a lawyer.

Political rise

Lincoln was first a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1812 and 1813 he was a member of the State Senate, from 1814 to 1822 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1822 he was president of this chamber and in 1820 a delegate to a conference to revise the state constitution. From 1823 to 1824 was Levi Lincoln Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and then for a short time judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court

Governor and congressman

On April 4, 1825, Lincoln was elected as the new governor of his state. After he was re-elected in the next eight years each, he could hold that office between May 26, 1825 and January 2, 1834. After the dissolution of his party, he became a member of the newly formed Whig Party. His term as governor was relatively uneventful. There was only a dispute between the State of Massachusetts and the private operators of a bridge structure. In 1833 the governor gave up another candidacy. Instead, he was elected as a candidate of the Whig Party in Congress. There he represented between 17 February 1834 to 16 March 1841 interests of his state. In Congress, he was chairman of the Committee for the administration of public property.

Further CV

After he had resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, he became head of the customs authority in Boston. Between 1844 and 1845 he was again a member of the State Senate; In 1845 he was its president. In 1848 Levi Lincoln was mayor of the city of Worcester. After the Whig Party had dissolved in the 1850s, Lincoln was a member of the new Republican Party. In the years 1860 and 1864 he supported the respective presidential campaigns of Abraham Lincoln. In 1864 he chose the president with a choice man. Levi Lincoln died in May 1868. Penelope Winslow Sever With his wife he had eight children.