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| | American President |
 | | Both Morton's networking within the party and his merits in business led his appointment as secretary of the Navy by President Roosevelt. | | | Morton assumed the post in June 1904, replacing outgoing secretary William H. Moody. | | | Morton saved face by becoming vice chairman of the Moody Commission to reorganize the Navy in 1909. |
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| | Levi P. Morton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Morton was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1879, until his resignation, effective March 21, 1881. | | | Morton was born in Shoreham, Addison County, Vermont. | | | Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was a Representative from New York and the twenty-second Vice President of the United States. |
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| | ALMOST PRESIDENT: LEVI P. MORTON |
| | In 1880, Morton served as the chief fund-raiser for the Republican Party. | | | He was elected governor of New York in 1894, and served one two-year term. | | | The result of the 1888 election was that Harrison and Morton lost the popular vote by over 100,000 votes, but won the vote in the Electoral College. |
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| | Vice President Levi Morton |
| | Levi Morton's was dumped by President Harrison in his re-election campaign because of Morton's refusal to support him in pressing for the passage of the Federal Elections Bill which would have mandated stricter punishments for anyone intimidating blacks from voting in the Southern states. | | | He was appointed to run for Vice President on Benjamin Harrison's campaign due to his long party-loyalty, his generous contributions to the party's coffers, and his strong Protectionist views. | | | Had Cleveland received their traditionally Democratic votes, he would have won the election. |
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| | History of the Appellate Division, Third Department |
| | In the autumn of 1887, Justice Putnam received a nomination for Justice of the Supreme Court of the Fourth Judicial District by both the Republican and Democratic judicial conventions, and was thereafter elected without opposition, his term commencing January 1, 1888. | | | In 1887, he was elected Justice of the Supreme Court. | | | He was appointed Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division, Third Department by Governor Levi P. Morton in October 1895 and served as such until he retired by the age limit, on January 1, 1907. |
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| | US Vice - Presidents - Levi Morton |
| | Morton failed to get himself elected to the US Senate in 1887, but his campaign contributions to his fellow Republicans gave him a place on the ticket with Benjamin Harrison when he ran against Grover Cleveland in 1888. | | | One of Vice President Levi Morton’s more notable ceremonial events was dedicating the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892. | | | In 1881 Morton went to Paris to become the United States Minister to France. |
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| | The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Morton |
| | Morton, Tom — of Coppell, Dallas County, Tex. Republican. | | | Son of Lars Gustaf Morton and Christine Hagglund Morton; married to Matilda Katherine Weiland. | | | Morton, Jackson (1794-1874) — also known as Billy Morton — of Florida. |
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| | .: Biography of Vice President Levi P. Morton (1889-1893) - American Vice Presidents :. .: All American Patriots :. |
| | Morton's withdrawal from the race, seen as an expression of his selfless sense of duty to his party (or faction of the party), raised his chances for the vice-presidential nomination in 1888. | | | Morton spent the next four years in the diplomatic service, attending largely to the ceremonies connected with France's gift of the Statue of Liberty to the United States. | | | Morton's gracious manners and generous campaign contributions made him many friends in Washington, among them President Ulysses S. Grant and Grant's strongest supporter in Congress, Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York. |
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| | Morton |
| | The Morton Cemetery Association was chartered April 16, 1904, leading to the establishment of the Morton Cemetery near the junction of SR 7 and US Hwy 12, where many of the pioneers are buried (La Gra, p. | | | Morton was incorporated in 1913 and Thomas Hopgood was elected its first mayor (La Gra, p. | | | The first religious service in Morton was held in 1893 by the Rev. William J. Rule, a Methodist circuit minister. |
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| | My Memories of Eighty Years - Chapter XIII |
| | The New York delegation, however, decided to present Morton's name and submit his candidacy to a vote. | | | But a new man of extraordinary force and ability came into this campaign, and that man was Mark Hanna, of Ohio. | | | n the canvass of 1896 the Republican organization of the State of New York decided, if possible, to have the national convention nominate Levi P. Morton for president. |
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| | American President |
| | Republican nominees Benjamin Harrison and Levi Morton, 1888. | | | The Democrats, at their national convention in St. Louis, rallied behind incumbent Grover Cleveland of New York and his running mate, Allen G. Thurman, the senator from Ohio. | | | When Senator John Sherman of Ohio, the first choice, faltered in the balloting, Harrison's support surged ahead, winning him the nomination on the eighth ballot. |
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| | p. 24 |
| | 15, 1856, Levi P. Morton, minister to France, vice-president of the United States, governor State of New York. |
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| | Benjamin Harrison won the Republican Party's nomination for President and faced Grover Cleveland in the 1888 Election. | | | The Tippecanoe Club was formed in 1888 for Benjamin Harrison, it was made up of men who had voted in 1841 for William Henry Harrison and were supporting Benjamin in 1888. | | | Benjamin Harrison altered his grandfather's famous slogan, "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" to reflect his vice presidential running mate Levi P. Morton of New York. |
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| | Morton-Moton Family Search. |
| | She is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery with her son Samuel A. Morton, his wife, and daughter. | | | The marriage record for Arabella Morton of Daviess county Ky states that | | | two references and suggestions that his father may have been John Hamilton Morton. |
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| | Honor Levi |
| | A sermon delivered before His Excellency Levi Lincoln,: Governor, His Honor Samuel T. Armstrong, lieutenant governor, the honorable Council, and the legislature... | | | A sermon delivered before His Excellency Levi Lincoln,: Governor, His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, lieutenant governor, the hon. | | | A sermon delivered before His Excellency Levi Lincoln governor,: His Honor Thomas L. Winthrop, lieutenant governor, the hon. |
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| | Levi Pa. Morton |
| | Levi Parsons Morton (1824-1920) served as vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893 under President Benjamin Harrison. | | | His political success started in 1879 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from New York. | | | Morton was born in Shoreham, Vt. He entered the banking business during the Civil War (1861-1865) and became a prominent New York City banker. |
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| | Southern New York -Book 2 - pt. 106 |
| | He married Ellen P. Purdy, of Cortlandville, New York. |
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| | Jewhoo! - "News & Notes" |
| | Morton was, in fact, the New England born son of a Christian minister. | | | Page I of II Two visitors have written me since Joseph Lieberman's nomination and asked me if Levi Parsons Morton, who served as vice president under Republican President Benjamin Harrison, (1889-1893), was Jewish. | | | Vice President Levi Parsons Morton's startling announcement that he is a religious Jew has been the subject of widely varying reactions both in the United States and abroad. |
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| | Jewhoo! - "News & Notes" |
| | Morton, a Vermont born son of a minister, is of old American stock. | | | He delayed the announcement of his conversion so it would not endanger Republican Benjamin Harrison's chance to defeat President Cleveland in the last election. | | | Today, Morton told reporters that his decision to attend the Senate on the Sabbath or Jewish holy days would be decided on the "basis of need-- after prayerful contemplation." Other than that, Morton does not see how his Jewish faith would effect his duties. |
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| | Fifth Generation |
| | Hazel Bonnie (daughter of William Bonnie and Winnifred Bennett) was born in Fowler, St. Lawrence, NY. | | | After Morton's death, Hazel continued to live in Ohio [where they met and married], and reportedly remarried. | | | Morton "Morton" Klock was born on 30 Mar 1884 in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY. |
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| | Morton Ancestry |
| | Ancestry Robert Morton Richardson, born 25 Jul 1870, Fillmore Co., MN, died 19 Apr 1940, Worthington, Nobles, MN - Richardson andamp; Hoxie History andamp; Ancestry in general; ancestry of Bruce H. Richardson in particular. | | | Elizabeth married 2 William Quin Morton 1 in 1816 | | | andamp; Catherine Collins Marriage 23 September 1834 John Morton Beaty -- Lee County Virginia |
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| | 1914 Rogers Morton, born in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1968-75 | | | 1881 Levi P Morton, U.S. ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty | | | 1930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator, College of Justice, Scotland |
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| | United States Presidents and the Masonic Power Structure pt2. freemason,jesuit,illuminati,presidents,trilateral ... |
| | On page 286, it says, "A careful study of the few photographs of Roosevelt released in 1944 raised the question of whether they are really photographs of Roosevelt or of a stand-in. | | | When he died, "Admiral McIntyre, FDR's physician, is reported to have said that Roosevelt's body was not embalmed; that in less than four hours after death, it had turned black, a reaction that occurs among other cases, in event of arsenic poisoning" (p. | | | He was unable to walk or stand unassisted, and never recovered his strength." Friends, the man who was elected as President for the 4th term was NOT ROOSEVELT! |
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| | Redwood and its Treasures |
| | He did in fact have an earlier business failure and failed political campaigns, but he managed to be elected to Congress as a Republican from New York in 1879. | | | On that day, he becomes the first American to climb the Statue of Liberty. | | | Two years later in the summer time, Levi’s wife of 15 years passed away in her 35th year of life at "Fairlawn." There were no children by this marriage. |
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| | MORTON, Levi Parsons (1824-1920) Bibliography |
| | Testimonial to Vice-President Levi P. Morton, upon his retirement from office on March 4, 1893. | | | McElroy, Robert M. Levi Parsons Morton: Banker, Diplomat and Statesman. | | | Harney, Gilbert L. The Lives of Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton. |
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| | Direct Testimony |
| | At the table of honor, Mayor Hugh J. Grant sat in the centre, with Vice-President Levi P. Morton at his right and Governor Roswell P. Flower at his left. | | | Others at the table were ex-Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Grover Cleveland, General Horace Porter, Secretary John W. Foster, Bishop Potter, ex-Senator Warner Miller, John H. Arnold, president of the Board of Alderman, Commissioner Charles | | | Addresses in the Lenox Lyceum by Vice-President Morton, Governor Flower, Secretary John W. Foster, Gen. Eral Porter and Others. |
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| | Catholic History of East Lewis County Washington |
| | Father Cloquet was interviewed by the Catholic Northwest Progress as to how his parish did. | | | The Sisters spoke of how unspoiled the children were. | | | The town of Morton came into existence shortly after the turn of the century, and was named for a gentleman from he state of Vermont, the Vice President of the United States, Levi P. Morton. |
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| | LEVI PARSONS MORTON - LoveToKnow Article on LEVI PARSONS MORTON |
| | The American firm assisted in funding the national debt at the time of the resumption of specie payments, and the London house were fiscal agents of the United States government in 1873-1884, and as such received the $15,500,000 awarded by the Geneva Arbitration Court in settlement of the " Alabama Claims " against Great Britain. | | | In 1899 Morton became president of the Morton Trust Company in New York City. | | | He then became a partner in a New York dry-goods house. |
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| | HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day |
| | Garret Hobart, a businessman and state politician from New Jersey, was nominated for vice president, helping Republicans carry his state in November for the first time since 1872. | | | In 1876, he won election as a Republican to Congress, where he quickly became a spokesman for high protective tariffs. | | | In November, McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan 292-155 in the Electoral College and 52-46% in the popular vote. |
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| | Abram P. T. Elder Papers (Library of Congress) |
| | ABRAM P. Prepared by Brad E. Gernand with the assistance of Andrew M. Passett Manuscript Division Library of Congress Washington, D.C. The papers of Abram Peter Turner Elder (died ca. | | | The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Abram P. |
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| | Morton |
| | Levi became a governor of New York and was also vice president of the United States under Benjamin Harrison. | | | His family soon moved to a house in the Village where he spent his boyhood. | | | This house looks virtually the same now as it did in this old postcard from the 1890s. |
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| | Handbook of Texas Online: MISSOURI-KANSAS-TEXAS RAILROAD |
| | Levi P. Morton, Levi Parsons, August Belmont, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Denison, and John D. Rockefeller became interested in the road after the federal government announced that right-of-way through Indian Territory and a liberal bonus of land would be given to the railroad that first reached the Territory's northern border. | | | The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Company (M-K-T or Katy), the first railroad to enter Texas from the north, began its corporate existence in 1865, when its earliest predecessor, the Union Pacific Railway Company, Southern Branch, was chartered by the State of Kansas to build from Fort Riley, Kansas, to the state's southern boundary. | | | In 1866 the first legislature after the Civil War |
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| | U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Sculptures > Levi P. Morton |
| | With the vice president’s approval, the committee selected Frank Edwin Elwell to execute the work. | | | In 1890, with Levi P. Morton still in office, the Joint Committee on the Library included his name among vice presidents to be memorialized by marble portrait busts in the Senate Chamber. | | | Elwell’s life portrait of Morton was created in New York, and placed in the Senate Chamber in 1891. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Morton, Levi Parsons |
| | Morton, Levi Parsons (1824-1920), 22nd vice president of the United States (1889-93), born in Shoreham, Vermont. |
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| | MORTON |
| | 6 Nancy Elizabeth MORTON b: 1904 d: 3 Jul 1996 | | | M635 MORTON William M-252 061 146 NdRcd No Twp. | | | M635 MORTON Marshal M-252 061 147 NdRcd No Twp. |
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| | Morton Items |
| | 1904 Xmas Telegram Washington to Chicago Paul Morton | | | Ayr United Res v Greenock Morton Res 1991-1992 | | | Crescent City Fire - Bishop Paul S. Morton Sr. |
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| | Benjamin Harrison |
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| | morton |
| | Morton is the name of several places in the United States of America: | | | Morton, France is also a commune in the Vienne département of France. | | | Welcome to Bessey, James Morton, and American Clamping |
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| | 1893 Testimonial to Vice-President Levi P. Morton (books, maps, atlas) at fleatique. |
| | Proceedings at the Banquet Given to the Vice-President by the United States Senators of the Fifty-Second Congress at the Arlington Hotel, in Washington, Monday, February 27, 1893." Published by Monitor Press of Concord, N.H. in 1893. | | | The full title of this 100+ year old book is "Testimonial to Vice-President Levi P. Morton Upon his Retirement from Office on March 4, 1893. | | | Fontis engraving, with protective tissue, of Vice-President Morton with a facsimile of his signature beneath. |
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