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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaMORTON, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck
(1823—1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1867-1877
Party:
Republican
MORTON, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck, a Senator from Indiana; born in Salisbury, Wayne County, Ind., August 4, 1823; attended a private school in Springfield, Ohio; apprenticed to a hatter and worked at the trade four years; attended Wayne County Seminary, Centerville, Ind., and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Centerville; elected judge of the sixth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1852; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor in 1856; elected lieutenant governor in 1860 and upon the election of the Governor to the United States Senate became Governor of Indiana in 1861; elected Governor in 1864; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1867; reelected in 1873 and served from March 4, 1867, until his death; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Forty-first Congress), Committee on Agriculture (Forty-second Congress), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty-second through Forty-fifth Congresses); appointed a member of the Electoral Commission of 1877, to decide the contests in various states in the presidential election of 1876; died in Indianapolis, Ind., November 1, 1877; interment in Crown Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Foulke, William. Life of Oliver H.P.T. Morton
. 2 vols. 1899. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1976; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses
. 45th Cong., 2d sess., 1877-1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Foulke, William Dudley. Life of Oliver P. Morton, Including His Important Speeches
. 2 vols. 1899. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1974.
French, William M. Life, Speeches, State Papers and Public Services of Gov. Oliver P. Morton
. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, & Baldwin, 1864.
Nugent, Helen Jean M. “Louis Riel and Oliver P. Morton: The Oddest Couple.” Indiana Magazine of History
79 (March 1983): 61-79.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Oliver P. Morton (a Senator from Indiana)
. 45th Cong., 2d sess., 1877-1878. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878.
Walker, Charles Manning. Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Oliver P. Morton
. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Journal, 1878.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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