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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriLINN, Lewis Fields
(1796—1843)
Senate Years of Service:
1833-1843
Party:
Jacksonian; Democrat
LINN, 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.
Hartley, James Robert. “The Political Career of Lewis Fields Linn.” M.A. thesis, University of Missouri, Columbia, 1951.
Husband, Michael B. “Senator Lewis F. Linn and the Oregon Question.” Missouri Historical Review
66 (October 1971): 1-19.
Linn, Elizabeth A. (Relfe), and G.B. Sargent. The Life and Public Services of Lewis F. Linn, for Ten Years a Senator of the United States from the State of Missouri
. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857.
Schlueter, Robert E. “Dr. Lewis F. Linn (1795-1843).” Weekly Bulletin of the St. Louis Medical Society
29:20 (25 January 1935): 310-317.
Shippee, Lester Burrell. “Linn and the Oregon Territory.” Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society
19 (December 1918): 283-305.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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