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LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838 )

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 974 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LOB-LUP
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838 ) , American lawyer and political leader, was born in Buckfield,
Oxford
  county, Maine, on the 27th of October 1838. He graduated at Harvard in 1857, studied law at the Harvard Law School and in 1861 was admitted to the bar. He practised in Boston, became active in politics as a Republican, was a member of the Massachusetts
House
  of Representatives in 18751878 and its
speaker
  in 18761878, lieutenant-
governor
  of the state in 1879, and
governor
  in 18801882. In 18831889 he was a member of the National
House
  of Representatives, and from
March
  1897 to May 1902 was secretary of the navy, in the cabinet, first of President
McKinley
  and then of President
Roosevelt
 . In 1902 he became president of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. His publications include a version of the Aeneid (1879),A liar-Dinner and Other Speeches (1895) and The New American Navy (1903).


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