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Enoch Lincoln

Enoch Lincoln (28 December 1788 – 8 October 1829) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 20) from 4 November 1818 to 3 March 1821 (succeeding Albion Parris), from ME-7 from 4 March 1821 to 3 March 1823 (preceding David Kidder), and from ME-5 from 4 March 1823 to 1826 (succeeding Ebenezer Herrick and preceding James W. Ripley), and the National Republican Governor of Maine from 3 January 1827 to 8 October 1829 (succeeding Albion Parris and preceding Nathan Cutler).

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Enoch Lincoln was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1788, the son of Levi Lincoln Sr. and the brother of Levi Lincoln Jr.. He graduated from Harvard in 1807 before becoming a lawyer in Salem in 1811, serving as a district attorney from 1815 to 1818, as a lawyer in Paris, Maine from 1819, in the US House of Representatives from 1818 to 1826, and as Governor of Maine from 1827 until his death in 1829.

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