See also:JOHN See also:DAVIS See also:LONG (1838– )
, See also:American lawyer and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in Buckfield, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford See also:county, See also:Maine, on the 27th of See also:October 1838
.
He graduated at Harvard in 1857, studied See also:law at the Harvard Law School and in 1861 was admitted to the See also:bar
.
He practised in See also:Boston, became active in politics as a Republican, was a member of the See also:Massachusetts See also:House of Representatives in 1875–1878 and its See also:speaker in 1876–1878, See also:lieutenant-See also:governor of the See also:state in 1879, and governor in 1880–1882
.
In 1883–1889 he was a member of the See also:National House of Representatives, and from See also:March 1897 to May 1902 was secretary of the See also:navy, in the See also:cabinet, first of See also:President See also:McKinley and then of President See also:Roosevelt
.
In 1902 he became president of the See also:Board of Overseers of Harvard See also:College
.
His publications include a version of the Aeneid (1879),A liar-See also:Dinner and Other Speeches (1895) and The New American Navy (1903)
.
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