LONG, John Davis, A Representative from Massachusetts; born in Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, October 27, 1838; attended the common schools at Buckfield and Hebron Academy, Maine; was graduated from the academic department of Harvard University in 1857; taught school in Westford Academy, Massachusetts; studied law at Harvard Law School and in private offices; was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Buckfield, Maine; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1863 and continued the practice of law, and in 1869 moved to Hingham, Mass.; member of the State house of representatives 1875-1878 and served the last three years as speaker of the house; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1879; Governor of Massachusetts 1880-1882; elected as a Republican to the Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth, and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1889); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1888; continued the practice of his profession in Boston; appointed Secretary of the Navy in the Cabinet of President McKinley and served from March 5, 1897, until May 1, 1902, when he resigned; resumed the practice of law in Boston, with residence in Hingham, Mass.; president of overseers of Harvard University and of the Authors' Club of Boston; died in Hingham, Mass., August 28, 1915; interment in Hingham Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Hess, James W. "John D. Long and Reform Issues in Massachusetts Politics, 1870-1889." New England Quarterly 33 (March 1960): 57-73.
Long, John Davis. Abraham Lincoln; An Address by John D. Long at the Centennial in Symphony Hall, Boston, February 12, 1909. Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1909.
------. Abstract of argument of Ex-Governor John D. Long: Before the Joint Committee on Education, April 25, 1889, at the Hearing at the State House, Boston, Mass., March 20th to April 25th, 1889. Boston, Mass.: Published by the Committee of One Hundred, [1889?]
------. After-dinner and Other Speeches. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1895. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1972].
------. America of Yesterday. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, [1923].
------. At the Fireside. Hingham, Mass.: Village Press, 1905. Reprint, Boston: A. H. Hall, 1914.
------. Bites of a Cherry. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1872.
------. Journal. Edited by Margaret Long. Rindge, N.H.: R. R. Smith, 1956.
------. Lafayette in America. [Boston: The Youth's Companion, 1902].
------. The New American Navy. Illustrated with drawings by Henry Reuterdahl and with photographs. New York: The Outlook Company, 1903. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1979.
------. Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston, July 4, 1882. Boston: Printed by order of the City Council, 1882.
------. Papers of John Davis Long, 1897-1904. Selected and Edited by Gardner Weld Allen. [Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1939.
------. The Republican Party: Its History, Principles and Policies. Edited by Hon. John D. Long. 1888. Reprint, New York: The M. W. Hazen Co., 1900.
------. The Whisky Tax. [Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884].
