. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. tion, and in that campaign made his maidenstump-speech in his native town for the Republicancandidates. His first vote was for Israel Washburnas Governor of Maine, and he was a delegate to theMaine Republican State Convention of 1861, atwhich James G. Blaine, then a young man, was anadvocate of the resolutions then adopted. Mr. Longwas nominated that year at a Republican caucus inhis native town for representative to the Legislature,but was defeated by a split in the party. Comin
. History of Plymouth County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. tion, and in that campaign made his maidenstump-speech in his native town for the Republicancandidates. His first vote was for Israel Washburnas Governor of Maine, and he was a delegate to theMaine Republican State Convention of 1861, atwhich James G. Blaine, then a young man, was anadvocate of the resolutions then adopted. Mr. Longwas nominated that year at a Republican caucus inhis native town for representative to the Legislature,but was defeated by a split in the party. Comingthe next year to Boston, he took no active part inpolitics until after his residence in Hingham. There,in 1871 and 1872, he followed Charles Sumner iu hisopposition to Grant, and into the Greeley each of those last-named years he rau on the Inde-pendent ticket for the Legislature, but was 1874, returning to the Republican fold, he wasnominated by the Republicans for representative, andelected to the session of 1875 from the then SecondPlymouth District (consisting of the towns of Hing-.
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