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JOHN DAVIS LONG (1838– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 974 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN
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DAVIS
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LONG (1838– )  ,
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American lawyer and
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political
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leader, was
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born in Buckfield,
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Oxford
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county,
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Maine, on the 27th of
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October 1838 . He graduated at Harvard in 1857, studied
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law at the Harvard Law School and in 1861 was admitted to the
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bar . He practised in
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Boston, became active in politics as a Republican, was a member of the
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Massachusetts
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House of Representatives in 1875–1878 and its
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speaker in 1876–1878,
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lieutenant-
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governor of the
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state in 1879, and governor in 1880–1882 . In 1883–1889 he was a member of the
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National House of Representatives, and from
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March 1897 to May 1902 was secretary of the
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navy, in the
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cabinet, first of
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President
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McKinley and then of President
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Roosevelt . In 1902 he became president of the
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Board of Overseers of Harvard
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College . His publications include a version of the Aeneid (1879),A liar-
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Dinner and Other Speeches (1895) and The New American Navy (1903) .

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