Lincoln was the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district and was a Whig. He served from 1839 to 1843.
He was previously the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Whig from 1837 to 1839; the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as a Whig from 1835 to 1837; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 5th congressional district as an Anti Jacksonian from 1833 to 1835.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- @unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
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