Enoch Lincoln

Enoch Lincoln
6th Governor of Maine
In office 1827 – October 8, 1829
Preceded by	Albion Parris
Succeeded by	Nathan Cutler
Personal details
Born	December 28, 1788(1788-12-28)
Died	October 8, 1829(1829-10-08) (aged 40) Augusta, Maine
Political party	National Republican

Enoch Lincoln (December 28, 1788 – October 8, 1829) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine, son of Levi Lincoln (1749-1820) and brother of Levi Lincoln (1782-1868). Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Lincoln graduated from Harvard University in 1807. He also served as Governor of Maine from 1827 until his death in October 1829.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of his profession in Salem in 1811. He served as United States district attorney 1815-1818, and moved to Paris, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), in 1819 and continued the practice of law.

Lincoln was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albion K. Parris. He was reelected to the Sixteenth Congress and served from November 4, 1818, to March 3, 1821. Upon the admission of Maine as a state, he was again elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1826. He served as Governor of Maine from 1827 until his death. He died in Augusta, Maine, on October 8, 1829, and was interred in a mausoleum in the State Park.

The town of Lincoln, Maine is named for him.

References

• Enoch Lincoln at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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