Lewis F. Linn

Lewis F. Linn

Lewis Fields Linn (born November 5, 1795 in Louisville , Kentucky , † October 3, 1843 in Ste. Genevieve , Missouri ) was an American politician who represented the state of Missouri in the US Senate .

Lewis Linn received only a meager school education before studying medicine in Louisville. During the British-American War he served as a doctor in the army. He then completed his medical training in Philadelphia , whereupon he began to practice in Sainte Genevieve in the Missouri Territory . There he helped to successfully fight two cholera epidemics.

Linn took his first political mandate in 1827 as a member of the Missouri Senate . In October 1833 he was after the death of US Senator Alexander Buckner in the Congress called; he also won the subsequent by-election. Initially still a member of the Democratic Republican Party , he later joined the new Democratic Party like the other supporters of Andrew Jackson . He was re-elected in 1836 and 1842. Linn, who died in office, chaired the Committee on Private Land Claims and the Committee of Agriculture .

Four states paid tribute to Lewis Linn by naming a county after him: Iowa , Kansas , Missouri, and Oregon . The place West Linn in Oregon also bears his name.

Several other members of his family were politically active: his half-brother Henry Dodge was a US Senator and Governor of Wisconsin , his nephew Augustus C. Dodge sat for Iowa in the US Senate, his brother-in-law James Hugh Relfe for Missouri in the US House of Representatives . He supported his nephew William Pope McArthur in his efforts to become the first land surveyor on the Pacific coast.

Web links

• Lewis F. Linn in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lewis F. Linn in the database of Find a Grave (English)