Leopold Morse
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Leopold Morse | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts | |
In office March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1885 | |
Preceded by | Josiah Gardner Abbott |
Succeeded by | Edward D. Hayden |
Constituency | 4th district (1877–83) 5th district (1883–85) |
In office March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889 | |
Preceded by | Ambrose Ranney |
Succeeded by | John F. Andrew |
Constituency | 3rd district |
Personal details | |
Born | Wachenheim, Bavaria, German Confederation | August 15, 1831
Died | December 15, 1892 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 61)
Nationality | American |
Political party | Democratic |
Profession | Clothier[1] |
Leopold Morse (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts.
Biography[edit]
Morse was born in Wachenheim, Bavaria, in the German Confederation, the son of Charlotte (Mehlinger) and Jacob Morse. His family was Jewish.[2][3] He attended the common schools in Wachenheim. He immigrated to the United States in 1849 and resided for about a year in Sandwich, New Hampshire.
He moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked in a clothing store, which he later purchased and operated until his death.
About 1850 Morse opened a clothing store in New Bedford, Massachusetts.[4]
Morse was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in 1870 and 1872 for election to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. The Boston Globe later noted that "few men step, as he did, from private station, immediately upon the floor of Congress, and he [had] never gone before the people except as a candidate for membership in that body".[5] He was elected to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1885). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-eighth Congress). He declined to accept a renomination in 1884. Morse was elected president of the Post Publishing Co. publisher of The Boston Post, in that year. He returned to elected office as a Representative to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). He served as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State for the Congress.
Morse was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He resumed business activities, and died in Boston on December 15, 1892.
Morse was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989), United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, p. 53, ISBN 0-8143-2186-0
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=CbQyAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA157&dq=Charlotte+Mehlinger+Jacob+Morse&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc2MfDscj3AhUEbs0KHSR0CzEQ6AF6BAgDEAE
- ^ https://books.google.ca/books?id=vWswAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=Charlotte+Mehlinger+Jacob+Morse&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjc2MfDscj3AhUEbs0KHSR0CzEQ6AF6BAgJEAE
- ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989), United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, p. 53, ISBN 0-8143-2186-0
- ^ "Hon. Leopold Morse Dead", The Boston Globe (December 16, 1892), p. 9.
External links[edit]
- United States Congress. "Leopold Morse (id: M001012)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
- German emigrants to the United States
- Jewish members of the United States House of Representatives
- 1831 births
- 1892 deaths
- Burials at Mount Auburn Cemetery
- Massachusetts Democrats
- Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- 19th-century American politicians
- The Boston Post people