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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OregonWayne Lyman MORSE
(1900-1974)
Senate Years of Service:
1945-1969Party: Republican; Independent;
DemocratMORSE, Wayne Lyman, a
Senator from Oregon; born near Madison, Dane County, Wis., October
20, 1900; attended the public schools; graduated from the
University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1923, and received a graduate
degree from that institution in 1924; graduated from the law
department of the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1928,
and from the law school at Columbia University, N.Y., in 1932; held
a reserve commission as second lieutenant, Field Artillery, United
States Army 1923-1929; taught argumentation at the Universities of
Wisconsin and Minnesota; assistant professor of law at the
University of Oregon at Eugene 1929, associate professor 1930, and
dean and professor of law 1931-1944; member of the Oregon Crime
Commission; administrative director, United States Attorney
General’s Survey of Release Procedures 1936-1939; Pacific
Coast arbitrator for the United States Department of Labor
(maritime industry) 1938-1942, and also served in other capacities
of the Labor Department; chairman of the Railway Emergency Board
1941; alternate public member of the National Defense Mediation
Board 1941; public member of the National War Labor Board
1942-1944; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1944; reelected in 1950; reelected as a Democrat in 1956 and again
in 1962, and served from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1969;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1968; lecturer and labor
arbitrator; distinguished visiting scholar, State University of New
York 1969-1970; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate in 1972; won the Democratic senatorial nomination in
1974 and was actively engaged in campaigning when he died July 22,
1974, in Portland, Oreg.; interment in Rest Haven Memorial Park,
Eugene, Oreg.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Drukman, Mason. Wayne Morse: A Political
Biography. Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1997; Wilkins,
Lee. Wayne Morse: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.:
Greenwood Press, 1985.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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