Thruston Ballard Morton

Thruston Ballard Morton (* 19th August 1907 in Louisville , Kentucky ; † 14. August 1982 ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the state of Kentucky in both houses of Congress represented.

Morton first worked in the grain industry after completing his bachelor's degree from Yale University . During World War II , he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy Reserve . He then became director of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce.

In 1946, Morton was elected to the United States House of Representatives to represent Kentucky . In doing so, he defeated the Democratic incumbent Emmet O'Neal by around 17,000 votes. He was a member of parliament for three terms until January 1953.

As a result, Morton was in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed: From January 1953 to February 1956 he served as Secretary of State for Congress Relations ( Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . In 1956 he ran for the Senate , where he again faced an incumbent from the Democratic Party. While Earle C. Clements got 499,922 votes, Morton narrowly prevailed with 506,903 votes. In 1962 he also won re-election against Lieutenant Governor Wilson W. Wyatt . On December 16, 1968, he resigned his mandate a few weeks before the end of his term in office in order to allow his party friend Marlow Cook to join him earlier.

Morton, who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1959 to 1961 , was considered a moderate Republican. He and his fellow party member John Sherman Cooper voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 . In 1968 he was one of the interviewees for the documentary In the Year of the Pig , which critically examined the Vietnam War .

His younger brother, Rogers Morton, was the US Secretary of the Interior and Trade .

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SURNAME	Morton, Thruston Ballard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Louisville , Kentucky, United States
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1982
Place of death	Louisville , Kentucky, United States