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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaOliver Hazard Perry Throck MORTON
(1823-1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1867-1877Party: RepublicanMORTON, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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