Lincoln, Levi
(25 October 1782–29 May 1868)
- Kinley Brauer
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Lincoln, Levi (25 October 1782–29 May 1868), lawyer and politician, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Levi Lincoln, a lawyer and later attorney general of the United States in the first Thomas Jefferson administration, and Martha Waldo. Levi Lincoln was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1805, three years after graduating from Harvard College. He established a practice in Worcester, and in 1807 he married Penelope Winslow, with whom he had eight children....
