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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLevi LINCOLN
(1749-1820)
LINCOLN, Levi, (father of
Enoch Lincoln and Levi Lincoln [1782-1868]), a Representative from
Massachusetts; born in Hingham, Mass., May 15, 1749; attended the
common schools; was graduated from Harvard College in 1772; studied
law in Newburyport and Northampton, Mass.; joined the Minutemen in
Cambridge at the outbreak of the Revolution; moved to Worcester,
Mass.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1775;
member of the committee of public safety; clerk of the court and
judge of probate for Worcester County 1775-1781; was specially
designated to prosecute the claims of the Commonwealth to the
numerous estates of loyalists in 1779; delegate to the state
constitutional convention in 1779; elected a Member of the
Continental Congress in 1781, but declined to serve; member of the
state house of representatives in 1796; served in the state senate
in 1797 and 1798; elected as a Republican to the Seventh Congress;
subsequently elected to the Sixth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Dwight Foster and served from December
15, 1800, to March 5, 1801, when he resigned; appointed Attorney
General of the United States in the cabinet of President Jefferson
and served from March 5, 1801, to December 31, 1804, and as Acting
Secretary of State from March 5 to May 2, 1801; member of the
governor’s council of Massachusetts in 1806; lieutenant
governor of Massachusetts in 1807 and 1808; became governor upon
the death of Governor Sullivan and served in this capacity from
December 10, 1808, to May 1, 1809; appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States by President Madison, but
declined to accept by reason of failing eyesight; again a member of
the governor’s council in 1810 and 1811; died in Worcester,
Worcester County, Mass., April 14, 1820; interment in the Rural
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Petroelje, Marvin J. “Levi Lincoln, Sr.: Jeffersonian
Republican of Massachusetts.” Ph.D. diss., Michigan State
University, 1969.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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