Elijah A. Morse

Elijah Adams Morse ( born May 25, 1841 in South Bend, Indiana, † June 5, 1898 in Canton, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1897 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1852 Elijah Morse came with his parents to Boston, where he attended the public schools. Later he graduated from the local Boylston School and the Onondaga Academy in upstate New York. During the Civil War he served in various units in the army of the Union. After the war, Morse set forth in Canton stove polish. Politically he was first a member of the Prohibition Party, for which he unsuccessfully stood as a candidate in 1877 for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. In 1876 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Later he became a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1886 and 1887 he was in the state Senate; In 1888 he was a member of the senior staff of the Governor.

In the congressional elections of 1888 Morse was as a Republican in the second electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John D. Long on March 4, 1889. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 four legislative sessions. Since 1893, he represented the twelfth district of his state. Since 1895, he headed the Committee on Alcohol Liquor Traffic. In 1896 he opted not to run again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Morse resumed his previous activities on again. He died on June 5, 1898 in Canton.