Atherton, George Washington. The Legislative Career of Justin Smith Morrill: An Address Delivered at New Haven, Connecticut, November 14, 1900. Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Co., 1900.
MORRILL, Justin Smith, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Strafford, Orange County, Vt., April 14, 1810; attended the common schools and Thetford and Randolph Academies; a merchant's clerk in Strafford 1825-1828 and in Portland, Maine, 1828-1831; merchant in Strafford 1831-1848; engaged in agriculture and horticulture 1848-1855; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1867), when he became Senator; author of the Tariff Act of 1861 and of the land-grant bill, which bears his name; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-ninth Congress); elected as a Union Republican to the United States Senate in 1866; reelected as a Republican in 1872, 1878, 1884, 1890 and 1896 and served from March 4, 1867, until his death; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-first through Forty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh through Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1883-1898; trustee of the University of Vermont 1865-1898; died in Washington, D.C., December 28, 1898; interment in the City Cemetery, Strafford, Vt.
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[ Top ]Atherton, George Washington. The Legislative Career of Justin Smith Morrill: An Address Delivered at New Haven, Connecticut, November 14, 1900. Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Co., 1900.
Florer, John H. "Major Issues in the Congressional Debate of the Morrill Act of 1862." History of Education Quarterly 8 (Winter 1968): 459-78.
Cross, Coy F. Justin Smith Morrill: Father of the Land Grant Colleges. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.
Hoyer, Randal Leigh. "The Gentleman from Vermont: The Career of Justin S. Morrill in the United States House of Representatives." Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1974.
Hills, Joseph L. "Justin Smith Morrill." Vermonters: A Book of Biographies. Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1931, pp. 162-165.
Merrill, George D. "Jonathan Turner or Justin Morrill: A New Look at the Authorship of the Land Grant Act of 1862." Vermont History 36 (Autumn 1968): 204-9.
Morrill, Justin S. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. 1882. Reprint. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1887.
Parker, William Belmont. The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith Morrill. 1924. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Justin S. Morrill (Late a Senator from Vermont). 55th Cong., 3d sess., 1898-1899. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899.