Luther Severance
Luther Severance was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Montague, Massachusetts on October 26, 1797. He moved with his parents to Cazenovia, New York in 1799. He attended the common schools, and learned the printer's trade in Peterboro, New York.
He established the Kennebec Journal in Augusta, Maine in 1825. He was elected a member of the Maine House of Representatives, and served in the Maine State Senate. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843–March 3, 1847).
He was vice president of the Whig National Convention in 1848. He served as United States commissioner to the Sandwich Islands 1850–1854, and died in Augusta, Maine on January 25, 1855. His interment was in Forest Grove Cemetery.
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