F. Bradford Morse

Frank Bradford Morse ( born August 7 1921 in Lowell, Massachusetts, † December 18, 1994 in Naples, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1961 and 1972 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After schooling Frank Morse served during the Second World War 1942-1946 in the U.S. Army. Then he studied until 1949 at Boston University, among others, Jura. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession. In 1949, he was also an employee in the office of the Chief Justice of Massachusetts. From 1949 to 1953 Morse held legal lectures at Boston University. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1952 and 1953 he sat in the council of Lowell. After that he belonged until 1954 to the administrative team of the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Senate. From 1955 to 1958 Morse worked for U.S. Senator Leverett Saltonstall and thereafter until 1960 as Deputy Administrator of the Veterans ' Administration, the forerunner of the Veterans Affairs.

In the congressional elections of 1960, Morse was in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the late Edith Nourse Rogers meantime, on 3 January 1961. After five elections he could remain until his resignation on 1 May 1972 at the Congress. In this time of the peak of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War fell. His resignation took place after his appointment as Deputy Secretary-General at the UN ( Under Secretary General for Political and General Assembly Affairs ). This post he held 1972-1976. Afterwards it was 1976-1986 as the successor of Rudolph A. Peterson Director of the UN Development Program. He died on December 18, 1994 in Naples; his urn was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.