Lot M. Morrill

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lot Myrick Morrill

Lot Myrick Morrill (born May 13, 1813 in Belgrade , Maine , † January 10, 1883 in Augusta , Maine) was an American politician , governor of Maine and treasury secretary .

Early years

Lot Morrill attended Belgrade Academy and Waterville College. After studying law, he was considered in 1837 Lawyer admitted. He then began to practice in his new profession in Readfield and Augusta. Morrill began his political career as a Democrat . In 1856, however, he joined the Republican Party after falling out over the question of slavery with the Democrats.

Political rise

Between 1854 and 1855, Morrill was a member of the Maine State Parliament. In 1856 he was elected to the state senate, where he even became president of the house. In the gubernatorial election of 1857 he was elected as his party's candidate for the new governor of Maine.

Governor of Maine

Morrill took up his new office on January 8, 1858. After two re-elections in 1858 and 1859, he was able to remain in office until January 2, 1861. As governor, he opposed the abolition of the Maine alcohol ban . On the eve of the American Civil War , he represented the positions of the Republican Party and supported Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaign .

US Senator

In 1861 he resigned as governor and was elected US Senator to succeed Hannibal Hamlin , who became Vice President of the United States under President Abraham Lincoln . Between 1863 and 1867 he was chairman of the Senate Audit and Expenditure Control Committee. From 1865 to 1867 he was also chairman of the Senate Committee for the District of Columbia . He then became first chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations . He held this office until 1869.

In 1869 he was re-elected to the Senate after the death of William P. Fessenden . He followed this in the position of chairman of the grant committee, which he took over from 1869 to 1871 and later from 1873 to 1876. He was also from 1869 to 1873 chairman of the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library , a joint committee of Congress that deals with the administration and supervision of the Library of Congress .

Treasury Secretary under Presidents Grant and Hayes

Portrait of LM Morrill in the Treasury

On July 7, 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Treasury Secretary after he had previously rejected his request to accept the War Department . He held the office of Treasury Secretary until the end of Grant's tenure on March 4, 1877. John Sherman succeeded him on March 10, 1877 . Grant's successor as President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed Morrill to head of customs at the Port of Portland, Maine.

various

Lot M. Morrill was married to Charlotte Holland Vance, with whom he had four children. He was the brother of Anson Morrill , who was also governor of Maine between 1855 and 1856.

Web links and background literature

Commons : Lot M. Morrill  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
personal data
SURNAME Morrill, Lot M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morrill, Lot Myrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Maine Governor and Secretary of the Treasury
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1883
Place of death Augusta