Long, John Davis
lawyer, congressman, governor, author, was born Oct. 27, 1838, in Buckfield, Maine. He served in the Massachusetts state house of representatives from 1875 to 1879, the last three years as speaker. He was lieutenant-governor of the state in 1879, and governor from 1879 to 1882. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses.
In 1897 he was appointed secretary of the navy. He is the author of After-Dinner and Other Speeches, and a blank-verse translation of the Æneid.