William C. Lovering Explained

William Croad Lovering
Office1:Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
Term Start1:March 4, 1897
Term End1:February 4, 1910
Predecessor1:Elijah A. Morse
Successor1:Eugene Foss
Constituency1: (1897–1903)
(1903–10)
Office2:Member of the
Massachusetts Senate
Term Start2:1874
Term End2:1875
Office3:Delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention
Term Start3:1880
Term End3:1880
Birth Date:25 February 1835
Birth Place:Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Death Place:Washington, D.C.
Party:Republican
Residence:Taunton, MA
Alma Mater:Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge High School
Occupation:Cotton Manufacturer
Profession:Attorney
Branch:Union Army
Battles:American Civil War

William Croad Lovering (February 25, 1835 – February 4, 1910) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Biography

Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Lovering moved with his parents to Taunton, Massachusetts, in 1837.He attended the Cambridge High School and the Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.He left school in 1859 for employment in his father's mill.During the Civil War served as quartermaster of Engineers in the Second Massachusetts Brigade, consisting of the Second and Third Regiments.He engaged in cotton manufacturing in Taunton at the Whittenton Mills.First president of the Taunton Street Railway.He served as president of the American Liability Insurance Co.He was interested in several other business enterprises.He served as president of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) for two years.He served as member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1874 and 1875.He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1880.Presided at the Republican State convention in 1892.

Lovering was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1897, until his death in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1910 of pneumonia.[1] He was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Massachusetts.

His daughter, Frances, married Charles Francis Adams III, United States Secretary of the Navy under Herbert Hoover and a member of the Adams political family.

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References

  1. Web site: S. Doc. 58-1 - Fifty-eighth Congress. (Extraordinary session -- beginning November 9, 1903.) Official Congressional Directory for the use of the United States Congress. Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by A.J. Halford. Special edition. Corrections made to November 5, 1903 . GovInfo.gov . U.S. Government Printing Office . 2 July 2023 . 51 . 9 November 1903.

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