Levi Lincoln, Jr.

Levi Lincoln, Jr. (October 25, 1782 – May 29, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the 13th Governor of Massachusetts (1825–1834) and represented the state in the U.S. Congress (1834–1841). Lincoln was the longest consecutive-serving governor in Massachusetts' history at 9 years from 1825 to 1834, although he was not the longest serving governor (Michael Dukakis was the longest serving at 12 years, from 1975 to 1979, and then 1983–1991).

Lincoln was distantly related to President Abraham Lincoln, their common ancestor being Samuel Lincoln, who left Hingham, Norfolk County, England, and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts in the 17th century. Levi Lincoln supported Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the presidency in Massachusetts.

Lincoln's father, also named Levi Lincoln, Sr., had also represented Massachusetts in the Congress, and had been the 11th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and Acting Governor (the latter only briefly). His brother, Enoch Lincoln, was Governor of Maine from 1827 to 1829, and thus they were the first two brothers to be Governors simultaneously (like John and William Bigler in the 1850s, Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller in the 1960s & 1970's, and George W. Bush and Jeb Bush from 1999 to 2000.)

See also

• Gov. Levi Lincoln House, a house on the National Register of Historic Places

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Poore, Benjamin Perley (1878), The Political Register and Congressional Directory: a Statistical Record of the Federal Officials, Legislative, Executive and Judicial of the United States of America 1776–1878, Boston, MA: Houghton, Osgood and Company, p. 500. 

References

External links

• Levi Lincoln, Jr. at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Official Commonwealth of Massachusetts Governor Biography
• Find-A-Grave
• People of Power: Abraham Lincoln
•  "Lincoln, Levi". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.