Leopold Morse

Leopold Morse

Leopold Morse (born August 15, 1831 in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse , Kingdom of Bavaria , †  December 15, 1892 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1877 and 1889 he twice represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Leopold Morse was born in Wachenheim in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate in 1831 . He attended the public schools in his home country. In 1849 he emigrated to America, where he first lived in Sandwich ( New Hampshire ) for a year . Then he moved to Boston, where he worked in a clothing store that he later bought and ran until his death. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1870 and 1872 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In 1876 and 1880 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions .

In the congressional election of 1876 , Morse was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1877. After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1885. From 1883 he represented the fourth district of his state there. Also from 1883 he was chairman of the committee to control the expenditure of the Navy Ministry. In 1884 he turned down another candidacy. In the same year he became president of the Post Publishing Co. In the elections of 1886 Morse was elected one more time to Congress. This time he represented the third constituency of his state there. Between March 4, 1887 and March 3, 1889, he completed another term there, during which he was chairman of the Committee for the Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1888 he renounced another congressional candidacy.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Leopold Morse continued his previous activities. He died in Boston on December 15, 1892.

Web links

• Leopold Morse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Leopold Morse in the database of Find a Grave (English)