{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Henry Bacon Lovering | image = Henry B. Lovering (cropped).png | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = {{ushr|MA|6|6th}} | term_start = March 4, 1883 | term_end = March 3, 1887 | preceded = [[Eben F. Stone]] | succeeded = [[Henry Cabot Lodge]] | office2 = 18th<br>[[Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts]] | term_start2 = January 3, 1881<ref name="Hurd Hist of EssexCty Vol1No1-1888p261">{{Citation | last=Hurd|first= Duane Hamilton| title = History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men, Volume 1, Issue 1 | page = 261 | publisher = J.W. Lewis & CO. | location = Philadelphia, PA | year = 1888}}</ref> | term_end2 = January 1, 1883<ref name="Hurd Hist of EssexCty Vol1No1-1888p261"/> | predecessor2 = [[George Plaisted Sanderson|George P. Sanderson]] | successor2 = [[William L. Baird]] | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1872<br>1874 | birth_date = April 8, 1841 | birth_place = [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1911|4|5|1841|4|8}}<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> | death_place = [[Wakefield, Massachusetts]], U.S.<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> | resting_place = [[Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts)|Pine Grove Cemetery]] | profession = | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> | alma_mater = [[Phillips Exeter Academy]] | spouse = Abby J. Clifford<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> | children = | allegiance = [[United States|United States of America]]<br/>[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] | branch = [[Union Army]] | service_years = | rank = | commands = | unit = Eighth Massachusetts Regiment<br>[[3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry|Third Massachusetts Cavalry]] | battles = [[American Civil War]] *[[Battle of Opequon|Battle of Winchester]]<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222">{{Citation | last=Metcalf|first= Henry Harrison | title = The Granite Monthly, Vol XLIII, No. 6; New Hampshire Necrology Hon. Henry B. Lovering| page = 222 | publisher = Granite Monthly Company | location = [[Concord, New Hampshire]] | date = June 1911}}</ref> | awards = | footnotes = | signature = Henry B. Lovering signature.png }}

'''Henry Bacon Lovering''' (April 8, 1841 &ndash; April 5, 1911) was an American politician and [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Early life and education== Born in [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], Lovering attended the public schools of [[Lynn, Massachusetts]], and was graduated from [[Phillips Exeter Academy]], [[Exeter, New Hampshire]].

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]; Lovering enlisted in 1862 in the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and served out his term. He reenlisted in the [[3rd Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry|Third Massachusetts Cavalry]] and served until the [[Battle of Opequon|Battle of Winchester]]; where he lost his left leg.<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/><ref name="NYT_April-6-1911p11">{{Citation | last=The New York Times | title = Ex-Congressman Henry B. Lovering.| page =11 | work = New York Times | location = [[New York, New York]] | date =April 6, 1911}}</ref>

==Political career== Lovering served as member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1872 and 1874. He was a member of the [[Lynn, Massachusetts]] Board of Assessors in 1879 and 1880.<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> Lovering served as the 18th [[List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts|Mayor of Lynn]] in 1881 and 1882.<ref name="NYT_April-6-1911p11"/> He was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[48th United States Congress|Forty-eighth]] and [[49th United States Congress|Forty-ninth]] Congresses (March 4, 1883 &ndash; March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the [[50th United States Congress|Fiftieth]] Congress. Lovering was Chairmen of the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention of 1886 and the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1887.<ref name="NYT_April-6-1911p11"/> In 1888, Lovering was appointed United States Marshal for Massachusetts by President [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]],<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/> serving until the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]] returned to power in 1891. Lovering was Warden of the State prison 1891–1893, United States pension agent at Boston 1894–1898, Sealer of weights and measures for the city of [[Boston, Massachusetts]] from 1902 to 1905, and Superintendent of the Chardon Street Soldiers' Home at Boston from 1905 to 1907.

==Death and Burial== Lovering moved to [[Wakefield, Massachusetts]], in 1907, where he died at the residence of his son<ref name="The Granite Monthly Vol1 43_1911p222"/><ref name="NYT_April-6-1911p11"/> on April 5, 1911.<ref name="NYT_April-6-1911p11"/> Lovering was interred in [[Pine Grove Cemetery (Lynn, Massachusetts)|Pine Grove Cemetery]], [[Lynn, Massachusetts]].

==See also== * [[1872 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1874 Massachusetts legislature]]

==References== {{CongBio|L000464}}

==Notes== <references/>

==External links== *[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/04/06/104780756.pdf Ex-Congressman Henry B. Lovering. New York Times Obituary, April 6, 1911]

{{s-start}} {{s-ppo}} {{s-bef|before=[[John F. Andrew]]}} {{s-ttl|title=[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee for [[Governor of Massachusetts]]|years=[[1887 Massachusetts gubernatorial election|1887]]}} {{s-aft|after=[[William E. Russell (politician)|William E. Russell]]}} {{s-off}} {{succession box | before=[[George Plaisted Sanderson|George P. Sanderson]] | title=[[List of mayors of Lynn, Massachusetts|Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts]] | years=January 3, 1881 - January 1, 1883 | after= [[William L. Baird]] }} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=6 | before=[[Eben F. Stone]] | after=[[Henry Cabot Lodge]] | years= March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1887 }} {{s-end}}

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