Levi Lincoln (1782-1868)

Birthplace

Worcester, Mass.
Portrait to be inserted here

Occupation

Lawyer
Congressional Service House 1834-41 (W-Mass.)

Newspaper

Worcester National Aegis, ca. 1807 (uncredited)

Federal appointments

Collector of Boston, 1841-43 (Harrison)

Other offices

Mass. Senate, 1812-13, 44-45; Senate President, 1845
Mass. House of Representatives, 1814-22; Speaker, 1822
Delegate to Mass. Constitutional Convention, 1820
Lt. Governor of Massachusetts, 1823
Justice of Mass. supreme court, 1824 
Governor of Massachusetts, 1825-34
First mayor of Worcester, 1848

Notes

Harvard graduate, class of 1802
Son of Republican congressman, U.S. attorney general, and newspaper enthusiast Levi Lincoln (1749-1820), who helped found the National Aegis
Brother of Enoch Lincoln, Republican congressman, Maine governor, and another Aegis editor

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"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic  
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