Henry B. Lovering

Henry Bacon Lovering (born April 8, 1841 in Portsmouth , New Hampshire , †  April 5, 1911 in Wakefield , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1883 and 1887 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Lovering attended the public schools in Lynn and then the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter . During the civil war he served in the Union army . After the war he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1872 and 1874 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ; from 1879 to 1880 he was city assessor. He then served as Mayor of Lynn between 1881 and 1882.

In the 1872 congressional election , Lovering was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Eben F. Stone on March 4, 1883 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1887 . In 1886 he was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of Massachusetts in 1887 .

Between 1888 and 1891, Lovering was US Marshal for his state. He was then head of the state prison from 1891 to 1893. Between 1894 and 1898 he was a pension agent with the Boston Pension Administration. From 1902 to 1905 he headed the Sealer of Weights and Measures in Boston . Then he ran the soldiers 'home “Charden street Soldiers' Home” until 1907. He then moved to Wakefield, where he died on April 5, 1911.

Web links

• Henry B. Lovering in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry B. Lovering in the database of Find a Grave (English)