Lewis Fields Linn was a Jacksonian Democratic

Democratic Party (United States)

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 U.S. Senator

United States Senate

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 for the state of Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

 born in Kentucky

Kentucky

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. He served in that role from 1833 to 1843. Four states named counties in his honor: Iowa

Linn County, Iowa

-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 211,226 in the county, with a population density of . There were 92,251 housing units, of which 86,134 were occupied.-2000 census:...

, Kansas

Linn County, Kansas

Linn County is a county located in East Central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 9,656. Its county seat is Mound City, and its most populous city is Pleasanton...

, Missouri

Linn County, Missouri

As of the census of 2000, there were 13,754 people, 5,697 households, and 3,760 families residing in the county. The population density was 22 people per square mile . There were 6,554 housing units at an average density of 11 per square mile...

, and Oregon

Linn County, Oregon

Linn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is named in honor of Lewis F. Linn, a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American occupation of the Oregon Country. By the 2010 US census the population of Linn county was 116,672 showing a 13.2% growth since the 2000 census...

. West Linn, Oregon

West Linn, Oregon

West Linn is a city in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Now a prosperous southern suburb of Portland, West Linn has a history of early development, prompted by the opportunity to harvest energy from nearby Willamette Falls. It was named after Senator Dr. Lewis Fields Linn of Ste...

 and Linnton, Oregon

Linnton, Portland, Oregon

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 also get their name from the ex-senator. He died on October 3, 1843.

Linn was the brother-in-law of James Hugh Relfe

James Hugh Relfe

James Hugh Relfe was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Virginia, Relfe moved to Washington County, Missouri, about 1816 with his father, who settled in Caledonia.He received a limited schooling....

, half brother of Henry Dodge

Henry Dodge

Henry Dodge was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, Territorial Governor of Wisconsin and a veteran of the Black Hawk War. His son was Augustus C. Dodge with whom he served in the U.S. Senate, the first, and so far only, father-son pair to serve concurrently....

 and uncle of his son Augustus C. Dodge

Augustus C. Dodge

Augustus Caesar Dodge was one of the first set of United States Senators to represent the state of Iowa after it was admitted to the Union as a state in 1846. Dodge, a Democrat, had also represented Iowa Territory in Congress as its delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from 1840 to...

. He was to support his nephew William Pope McArthur

William Pope McArthur

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 in his efforts to get Naval appointments as McArthur was to become the first surveyor the Pacific Coast.

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