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 JOHN DAVIS LONG

, of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy, was born in Buckfield, Oxford County. Me., October 27, 1838; received his preparatory education in the common school of his native town and the Hebron Academy, Maine; was graduated from Harvard in 1857; taught school two years in Westford Academy, Massachusetts; studied law at Harvard Law School and in private offices; was admitted to the bar; and has since practiced; was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1875, 1876, 1877, and 1878; was speaker of the house during the last three years; was lieutenant-governor of his State in 1879, and governor in 1880, 1881, and 1882; was elected to the Forty-Eighth and reëlected to the Forty-Ninth and Fiftieth Congresses; was for several years on the State-house construction commission of his State; is senior member of the law firm of Long & Hemenway; was appointed and confirmed Secretary of the Navy March 5, 1897.