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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / MassachusettsEnoch LINCOLN
(1788-1829)
LINCOLN, Enoch, (son of
Levi Lincoln [1749-1820] and brother of Levi Lincoln [1782-1868]),
a Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in
Worcester, Mass., December 28, 1788; was graduated from Harvard
University in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar and
commenced the practice of his profession in Salem, Mass., in 1811;
United States district attorney 1815-1818; moved to Paris, Maine
(then a district of Massachusetts), in 1819 and continued the
practice of law; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albion K. Parris;
reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from November 4,
1818, to March 3, 1821; upon the admission of Maine as a state was
elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth, reelected as an
Adam-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an
Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4,
1821, until his resignation in 1826; governor of Maine from 1827
until his death; had declined to be a candidate for renomination;
died in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, on October 8, 1829;
interment in a mausoleum in the State Park.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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