Morton D. Hull

Morton Denison Hull ( born January 13, 1867 in Chicago, Illinois; † August 20, 1937 in Bennington, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Morton Hull attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1885, the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. After a subsequent law degree in 1892 and its recent approval as a lawyer in Chicago, he began to work in this profession. He contributed financially to several craft companies. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1906 and 1914 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Illinois; 1915 to 1922 he was a member of the State Senate. In June 1916 he took part in Chicago as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Governor of Illinois. In 1920 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution.

After the death of Mr James Hull man was at the due election for the second seat from Illinois as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on April 3, 1923. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1933 Congress. In 1932 he gave up another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Morton Hull took his previous activities on again. He died on August 20, 1937 on his summer residence in Bennington.