Elijah A. Morse

Elijah A. Morse

Elijah Adams Morse (born May 25, 1841 in South Bend , Indiana , †  June 5, 1898 in Canton , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1897 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1852 Elijah Morse came to Boston with his parents , where he attended public schools. He later graduated from the Boylston School there and the Onondaga Academy in New York State . During the civil war he served in various units in the Union army . After the war, Morse made oven polishes in Canton. Politically, he first became a member of the Prohibition Party , for which he ran unsuccessfully for the office of lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1877 . In 1876 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . He later became a member of the Republican Party . In 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the State Senate ; In 1888 he was a member of the governor's advisory board .

In the 1888 congressional election , Morse was elected as a Republican in the second constituency of Massachusetts to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John D. Long on March 4, 1889 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1897 . Since 1893 he represented the twelfth district of his state. From 1895 he headed the Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic . In 1896 he declined to run again. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Morse resumed his previous activities. He died in Canton on June 5, 1898.

Web links

• Elijah A. Morse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Elijah A. Morse in the database of Find a Grave (English)