William C. Lovering

{{Short description|American politician (1835-1910)}}  {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Croad Lovering | image = William C Lovering Massachusetts Congressman circa 1908.png | image_size = | caption = William C. Lovering circa 1908<ref name="Who's Who in State Politics, 1908">{{Citation| title =Who's Who in State Politics, 1908 | page = 16 | publisher = Practical Politics | location = Boston, MA | year = 1908}}</ref> | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1897 | term_end1 = February 4, 1910 | predecessor1 = [[Elijah A. Morse]] | successor1 = [[Eugene Foss]] | constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|12|12th district}} (1897–1903)<br>{{ushr|MA|14|14th district}} (1903–10) | order2 = | office2 = Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts Senate]]<ref name="Who's Who in State Politics, 1908" /> | term_start2 = 1874 | term_end2 = 1875 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | order3 = | office3 = Delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention<ref name="Whowho1908">{{Citation| title =Who's who in State Politics, 1908 | page =16 | publisher = Practical Politics | location = Boston, MA | year = 1908}}</ref> | term_start3 = 1880 | term_end3 = 1880 | predecessor3 = | successor3 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1835|2|25}} | birth_place = [[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1910|2|4|1835|2|25}} | death_place = [[Washington, D.C.]], U.S. | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | other_party = | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Hopkins Classical School, Cambridge High School<ref name="Who's Who in State Politics, 1908" /> | occupation = Cotton Manufacturer<ref name="Who's Who in State Politics, 1908" /> | profession = Attorney | signature = | website = | branch = [[Union Army]] | battles = [[American Civil War]] | footnotes = }}

'''William Croad Lovering''' (February 25, 1835 – February 4, 1910) was a [[United States House of Representatives|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 [[American Civil War|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 Complex|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 Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[55th United States Congress|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.<ref name="cd">{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-04562_00_00-001-0001-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=2 July 2023 |page=51 |date=9 November 1903}}</ref> He was interred in [[Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Taunton, Massachusetts)|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]].

==See also== {{Portal|American Civil War}} * [[1874 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1875 Massachusetts legislature]] *[[List of members of the United States Congress who died in office (1900–1949)]]

==References== <references/>

==Bibliography== *''Who's Who in State Politics, 1908'' Practical Politics (1908) p. 16. {{CongBio|L000465}} Retrieved on 2008-02-14 {{Bioguide}} *[http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7vm4bb4r;view=1up;seq=7 William C. Lovering, late a representative from Massachusetts, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1911]

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