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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkMORTON, Levi Parsons
(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.
Boyd, James Penny. Biographies of Harrison and Morton
. Philadelphia: Franklin News Co., 1888.
Harney, Gilbert L. The Lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton.
Providence, R.I.: J.A. and R.A. Reid, 1888.
Leach, Josian Granville. Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton.
Cambridge, Mass.: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894.
McElroy, Robert M. Levi Parsons Morton: Banker, Diplomat and Statesman.
London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Morton, Levi Parsons. Immigration. Its national character, and importance to the industries and prosperity of the country
. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1880.
———. Public Papers of Levi P. Morton, Governor
. Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Company, 1896
Testimonial to Vice-President Levi P. Morton, upon his retirement from office on March 4, 1893
. [Concord, N.H.: Monitor Press, 1893].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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