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Senate Years of Service: 1867-1898 Party: Republican
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 merchants 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.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Hoyer, Randal L. The
Gentleman from Vermont: The Career of Justin S. Morrill in the United States
House of Representatives. Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1974;
Parker, William. The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith
Morrill. 1924. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
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