Levi Lincoln, Sr.

Levi Lincoln senior ( born May 15, 1749 Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † April 14, 1820 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer, politician, Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) and acting governor of Massachusetts.

Family, study and career

Lincoln was distantly related through a common relative with Abraham Lincoln. His two sons, Levi and Enoch were also governors of Massachusetts or Maine.

Lincoln initially completed a general education studies at Harvard University, from which he graduated in 1772 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied law.

At the outbreak of the War of Independence ( 1775-1783 ) he served as a so-called Minuteman in the militia and participated as a volunteer part in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. Subsequently, he was from 1775 to 1781 as a judicial officer, Judge of the Probate Court and District Prosecutor ( County Prosecutor ) of the Worcester County operates.

Political career

Deputy in Massachusetts and Washington

1779 Lincoln was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of Massachusetts. Despite his election as a member of the Continental Congress in 1781, he renounced the acceptance of the mandate. His political career began in 1796 with his election to the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, and sat down in the following year with membership of the State Senate continued.

In 1800 he was elected MP for the U.S. House of Representatives. There he took up to 5 March 1801, the interests of the fourth congressional district of Massachusetts.

Minister of Justice and Governor of Massachusetts

On March 5, 1801, President Thomas Jefferson appointed him as Attorney General in his cabinet. At the same time he was until May 2, 1801 Office of the Secretary of State. The Office of the Attorney General, he held to the end of Jefferson's first term of office on March 5, 1805.

In 1806 he was then first member of the State Council of Massachusetts. Subsequently, he was in 1807 Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; as such he was then, after the death of James Sullivan also 1808-1809 Acting Governor of Massachusetts. 1809 failed its regular election for governor. From 1810 to 1812 he was again a member of the State Council.

The 1811 offered him the office of Judge of the United States Supreme Court, he refused.

Publications

  • "Letters to the people, by a Farmer ", 1802
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