Leopold Morse

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Leopold Morse
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 3rd, 4th & 5th district
In office
March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1885
March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889
Preceded by Josiah G. Abbott (4th)
Selwyn Z. Bowman (5th)
Ambrose Ranney (3rd)
Succeeded by Patrick A. Collins (4th)
Edward D. Hayden (5th)
John F. Andrew (3rd)
Personal details
Born August 15, 1831
Wachenheim, Bavaria, Germany
Died December 15, 1892(1892-12-15) (aged 61)
Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Political party Democratic
Profession Clothier[1]
Religion Jewish[2]

Leopold Morse, (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Wachenheim, Germany. He attended the common schools there. He immigrated to the United States in 1849 and resided for about a year in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

He moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked in a clothing store, which he later purchased and operated until his death.

About 1850 Morse opened a clothing store in New Bedford, Massachusetts.[3]

Morse was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in 1870 and 1872 for election to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. He was elected to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1885). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Forty-eighth Congress). He declined to accept a renomination in 1884. Morse was elected president of the Post Publishing Co. publisher of The Boston Post, in that year. He returned to elected office as a Representative to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). He served as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State for the Congress.

Morse was not a candidate for renomination in 1888. He resumed business activities, and died in Boston on December 15, 1892.

Morse was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge.

Leopold Morse's Store in Boston, cir. 1886
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Josiah Gardner Abbott		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 4th congressional district
March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883		 Succeeded by
Patrick A. Collins
Preceded by
Selwyn Z. Bowman		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district
March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885		 Succeeded by
Edward D. Hayden
Preceded by
Ambrose Ranney		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district
March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889		 Succeeded by
John F. Andrew

References [edit]

  1. ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989), United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, p. 53., ISBN 0-8143-2186-0 
  2. ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989), United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, p. 53., ISBN 0-8143-2186-0 
  3. ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader (1989), United States Jewry, 1776-1985, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, p. 53., ISBN 0-8143-2186-0 

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