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Long, John Davis 1838-

Lawyer; born in Buckfield, Me., Oct. 27, 1838; graduated at Harvard College in 1857; taught school

John Davis long.

till 1859; was admitted to the bar in 1861; settled in Boston; and afterwards removed to Hingham. In 1875-78 he was a member of the State legislature; and in the last two years of this period was speaker of the House. He was elected governor in 1879, 1880, and 1881 and was a Representative in Congress in 1883-89. At the beginning of President McKinley's first administration Mr. Long was appointed Secretary of the Navy, a post to which he was reappointed by the President at the beginning of his second administration, March 5, 1901. He has published The Republican party (1892), and a translation of Vergil's Aeneid.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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