Vice President under Benjamin Harrison March 4, 1889 until March 3, 1893
MORTON, Levi Parsons, a
Representative from New York and a Vice President of the United States; born in
Shoreham, Addison County, Vt., May 16, 1824; attended the public schools and
Shoreham Academy; clerk in a general store in Enfield, Mass., 1838-1840; taught
school in Boscawen, N.H., in 1840 and 1841; engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Hanover, N.H., in 1845; moved to Boston in 1850; entered the dry-goods business
in New York City in 1854; engaged in banking in New York City in 1863;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; was
appointed by President Rutherford Hayes honorary commissioner to the Paris
Exhibition of 1878; elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh
Congresses and served from March 4, 1879, until his resignation, effective March
21, 1881; United States Minister to France 1881-1885; elected Vice President of
the United States on the Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison and served
from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893; Governor of New York 1895-1897; was an
investor in real estate; died in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, N.Y., on May 16,
1920; interment in the Rhinebeck Cemetery. - -Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Uncommon Sense: President Obama and
US China Trade 1784-2009
The United Colonies 1st
government began in a Philadelphia Tavern
and the United States 1st federal government ended in a
NYC Tavern!
The Founders convened the government in 11 different capitol buildings and
experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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