Henry B. Lovering
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Henry Bacon Lovering (April 8, 1841 - April 5, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Lovering attended the public schools of Lynn, Massachusetts, and was graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. During the Civil War enlisted in 1862 in the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served out his term. Reenlisted in the Third Massachusetts Cavalry. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1872 and 1874. City assessor in 1879 and 1880. He served as mayor of Lynn in 1881 and 1882.
Lovering was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor in 1887. United States marshal for Massachusetts 1888-1891. Warden of the State prison 1891-1893. United States pension agent at Boston 1894-1898. Sealer of weights and measures for the city of Boston, Massachusetts from 1902 to 1905. Superintendent of the Chardon Street Soldiers' Home at Boston 1905-1907. He moved to Wakefield, Massachusetts, in 1907, where he died on April 5, 1911. He was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Massachusetts.
