Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877
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Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck, 1823-1877.
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Morton, O. P. 1823-1877 (Oliver Perry),
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Indiana lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Morton served as the state's lieutenant governor in 1861, and as governor from 1861 to 1867. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and served there until his death.
14th Governor of Indiana, 1861-1867; United States Senator from Indiana, 1867-1877.
Republican Governor of Indiana throughout the Civil War
Oliver P. Morton was born August 4, 1823 in Salisbury, Wayne County, Indiana. He was apprenticed to a hatter and worked in that career for four years before attending Wayne County Seminary and Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Morton Studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He began his law practice in Centerville, Indiana. He was elected judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit of Indiana in 1852. He ran unsuccessfully for governor of Indiana in 1856 but was elected lieutenant governor under Henry S. Lane in 1860. He became governor in 1861 upon Lane's election to the U.S. Senate. He served as governor until 1867 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. While in the Senate Morton served on the Committee on Manufactures, Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Privileges and Elections; he was appoint to the Electoral Commission of 1877 to decide contests in various states during the presidential election of 1876. Oliver P. Morton died on November 1, 1877 in Indianapolis and is interred at Crown Hill Cemetery.
Oliver P. Morton was born 4 August 1823 in Centerville, Wayne County, Indiana. He became Indiana's fourteenth governor and held office from 1861 to 1867. In 1867 he was elected to the U.S. Senate and served there until his death in 1877.
Governor of Indiana, United States Senator.
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