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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriLewis Fields LINN
(1796-1843)
Senate Years of Service:
1833-1843Party: Jacksonian; DemocratLINN, Lewis Fields,
(brother-in-law of James Hugh Relfe, half-brother of Henry Dodge,
uncle of Augustus Caesar Dodge), a Senator from Missouri; born near
Louisville, Ky., November 5, 1796; received a meager academic
education; studied medicine in Louisville; served in the War of
1812 as a surgeon; completed his medical studies at Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1816; admitted to practice and located at Saint Genevieve,
Territory of Missouri, where he played a significant role in
combating two cholera epidemics; member, State senate 1827;
appointed to the French Land Claims Commission in Missouri in 1832;
appointed and subsequently elected as a Jacksonian (later Democrat)
to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Alexander Buckner; reelected in 1836 and again in 1842 and
served from October 25, 1833, until his death in Saint Genevieve,
Mo., on October 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims
(Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses), Committee on
Agriculture (Twenty-seventh Congress); interment in the Protestant
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Husband, Michael B. “Senator Lewis F. Linn and
the Oregon Question.” Missouri Historical Review 66
(October 1971): 1-19; Linn, Elizabeth and G.B. Sargent. Life and
Public Services of Dr. Lewis F. Linn. New York: D. Appleton and
Company, 1857.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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