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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New York / USLevi Parsons MORTON
(1824-1920)
MORTON, Levi Parsons, a
Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United
States; born in Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., May 16, 1824;
attended the public schools and Shoreham Academy; clerk in a
general store in Enfield, Mass., 1838-1840; taught school in
Boscawen, N.H., in 1840 and 1841; engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Hanover, N.H., in 1845; moved to Boston in 1850; entered the
dry-goods business in New York City in 1854; engaged in banking in
New York City in 1863; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876
to the Forty-fifth Congress; was appointed by President Rutherford
Hayes honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition of 1878;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his resignation,
effective March 21, 1881; United States Minister to France
1881-1885; elected Vice President of the United States on the
Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison and served from March 4,
1889, to March 3, 1893; Governor of New York 1895-1897; was an
investor in real estate; died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y.,
on May 16, 1920; interment in the Rhinebeck Cemetery.
Bibliography
McElroy, Robert. Levi Parsons Morton: Banker, Diplomat, and
Statesman. 1930. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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