| Birth: | May 16, 1824
Shoreham
Addison County
Vermont, USA | | Death: | May 16, 1920
Rhinebeck
Dutchess County
New York, USA | 
US Vice President. Educated at Shoreham Academy, he taught school in Boscawen, New Hampshire, (1840-41). In 1878, he was appointed honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition by President Rutherford Hayes. In 1879, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses and served until his resignation, when appointed US Minister to France, serving (1881-85). He was elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison and served 1881-93. After his term, he served as the Governor of New York (1895-97) and later was an investor in real estate until his death at age 96. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
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Parents:
Daniel Oliver Morton (1788 - 1852)
Lucretia Parsons Morton (1789 - 1862)
Spouses:
Lucy Kimball Morton (____ - 1871)*
Anna Livingston-Reade Street Morton (1846 - 1918)*
Children:
Lewis Parson Morton (____ - 1878)*
Carrie Morton (1857 - 1857)*
Edith Livingston Morton Eustis (1874 - 1964)*
Lena Kearney Morton (1875 - 1905)*
Helen Stuyvesant Morton (1876 - 1952)*
Alice Morton Rutherfurd (1879 - 1917)*
Mary Morton (1881 - 1932)*
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Search Amazon for Levi Parsons Morton | | | Burial:
Rhinebeck Cemetery
Rhinebeck
Dutchess County
New York, USA |
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Record added: Jan 01, 2001
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Levi Parsons Morton: thank you sir forserving as Vice President of the United States President Benjamin Harrison.Also thank you for being the Governor of New York and as honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition of 1878. happy birthday and may you res...(Read more)
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MFPS
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Alan Brownsten
Added: May. 16, 2013 |
Thank you for being a good diplomat as Minister to France, and for your fair handling as Vice President of the rights of members of all parties to debate in the Benjamin Harrison Administration. Congradulations on reaching such an old age too.
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J.B.
Added: May. 5, 2013 |
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