Elmer A. Morse

Elmer Addison Morse ( born May 11, 1870 in Franksville, Racine County, Wisconsin, † October 4, 1945 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1907 and 1913 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Elmer Morse attended the public schools in Racine County. Then he studied until 1893 at Ripon College. In 1893 and 1895 he was elected school overseer in Racine County. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and its made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Antigo to work in his new profession. Between 1900 and 1906 he was also legal representatives of this city. Since 1900, until his death Morse worked in the insurance and real estate sector.

Politically, Morse member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1906 he was in the tenth constituency of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Webster E. Brown on March 4, 1907. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1913 three legislative periods. In 1912, he was not nominated by his party for re-election.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Morse again worked as a lawyer in Antigo. In 1934 and 1940 he was a delegate to the regional Republican party days in Wisconsin. Elmer Morse died on October 4, 1945 in Rochester, and was buried in Antigo.

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