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Short biography of Senator Lewis F. Linn from
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000338:
LINN, Lewis Fields, 1796-1843
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Senate Years of Service: 1833-1837; 1837-1843
Party: Jacksonian; Democrat

LINN,
Lewis Fields, (brother-in-law of James Hugh Relfe, half-brother of
Henry Dodge, uncle of Augustus Caesar Dodge), a Senator from
Missouri; born near Louisville, Ky., November 5, 1796; received a
meager academic education; studied medicine in Louisville; served in
the War of 1812 as a surgeon; completed his medical studies at
Philadelphia, Pa., in 1816; was admitted to practice and located at
Saint Genevieve, Territory of Missouri, where he played a
significant role in combating two cholera epidemics; member, State
senate 1827; appointed to the French Land Claims Commission in
Missouri in 1832; appointed and subsequently elected as a Jacksonian
to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Alexander Buckner; reelected in 1836 and again in 1842 and served
from October 25, 1833, until his death in Saint Genevieve, Mo., on
October 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims
(Twenty-fourth through Twenty-sixth Congresses), Committee on
Agriculture (Twenty-seventh Congress); interment in the Protestant
Cemetery. [I am currently assuming this means
Holy Cross Lutheran]
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography;
Husband, Michael B. ‘Senator Lewis F. Linn and the Oregon Question.’
Missouri Historical Review 66 (October 1971): 1-19; Linn, Elizabeth
and G.B. Sargent. Life and Public Services of Dr. Lewis F. Linn. New
York: D. Appleton and Company, 1857.
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