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{{Short description|American politician}}
 
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{{Infobox Congressmanofficeholder
| name =William Croad Lovering
| image =William C Lovering Massachusetts Congressman circa 1908.png
| imagesize =250px▼
| 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 | date = (1908)}}</ref>▼
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▲| 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 | dateyear = (1908)}}</ref>
| state =[[Massachusetts]]▼
 
| district =[[Massachusetts's 12th congressional district|12th]] & [[Massachusetts's 14th congressional district|14th]]
| office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]]
| term_start =March 4, 1897▼
| term_end term_start1 =March 3, 1903 (12th)<br/>March 4, 1903 – February 4, 1910 (14th)1897
▲| term_startterm_end1 =March February 4, 18971910
| preceded =[[Elijah A. Morse]] (12th)<br/>No predecessor for the 14th district
| succeededpredecessor1 = =[[SamuelElijah LA. PowersMorse]] (12th)<br/>[[Eugene Foss]] (14th)
| birth_datesuccessor1 = {{birth[[Eugene date|1835|2|25}}Foss]]
| constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|12|12th district}} (1897–1903)<br>{{ushr|MA|14|14th district}} (1903–10)
| birth_place =[[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]]▼
 
| death_date = {{death date and age|1910|2|4|1835|2|25}}▼
| death_place =[[Washington, D.C.]]▼
| nationality =▼
| party =[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]▼
| otherparty =▼
| order2 =
| office2 = Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts Senate]]<ref name="Who's Who in State Politics, 1908" />
| term_start2 = 1874
| term_end2 = 1875
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| 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 | dateyear = (1908)}}</ref>
| term_start3 =1880
| term_end3 =1880
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1835|2|25}}
▲| birth_place =[[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]]
▲| death_date = {{death date and age|1910|2|4|1835|2|25}}
▲| death_place =[[Washington, D.C.]]
▲| nationality =
▲| party =[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
▲| otherparty =
| spouse =
| relations =
| children =
| residence =Taunton, MaMA
| 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
| net worth =
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| signature =
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'''William Croad Lovering''' (February 25, 1835 -– February 4, 1910) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
 
==Biography==
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He left school in 1859 for employment in his father's mill.
<!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->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]].
<!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->First president of the Taunton Street Railway.
He served as president of the American Liability Insurance Co.
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<!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->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 [[WashingtonAtlanta, D.C.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==
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* [[1874 Massachusetts legislature]]
* [[1875 Massachusetts legislature]]
*[[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)]]
 
==References==
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==Bibliography==
*''Who's Who in State Politics, 1908'' Practical Politics (1908) p.&nbsp;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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| district=12
| before=[[Elijah A. Morse]]
| after=[[Samuel L. Powers]]
| years=1897&mdash;1903}}
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| state=Massachusetts
| district=14
| before=''District restored''
| after=[[Eugene Foss]]
| years=1903&mdash;1910}}
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{{Persondata
|NAME= Lovering, William Croad
|ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
|SHORT DESCRIPTION= [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] [[Union Army|Army]] officer, politician
|DATE OF BIRTH= February 25, 1835
|PLACE OF BIRTH= [[Woonsocket, Rhode Island]]
|DATE OF DEATH= February 4, 1910
|PLACE OF DEATH= [[Washington, D.C.]]
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lovering, William Croad}}
[[Category:1835 births]]
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[[Category:Republican Party Massachusetts Statestate Senatorssenators]]▼
[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]▼
▲[[Category:Massachusetts State Senators]]
[[Category:Union Army officers]]
[[Category:People from Woonsocket, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:PeoplePoliticians from Taunton, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:People of Massachusetts in the American Civil War]]
[[Category:Deaths from pneumonia in Washington, D.C.]]
▲[[Category:MembersRepublican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts]]
[[Category:19th-century American legislators]]
[[Category:Burials at Mount Pleasant Cemetery (Taunton, Massachusetts)]]
[[Category:19th-century Massachusetts politicians]]
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