Leopold Morse

Leopold Morse ( born August 15, 1831 in Home Guard on the wine route, Kingdom of Bavaria, † December 15, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1889 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Leopold Morse was born in 1831 in Wachenheim in today's Rhineland- Palatinate. He attended the common schools. In 1849 he emigrated to America, where he first lived for a year in Sandwich ( New Hampshire). Then he moved to Boston, where he worked in a clothing store, which he later bought and ran until his death. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. 1870 and 1872, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. In 1876 and 1880 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Morse was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1877. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1885 four legislative sessions. Since 1883, he represented the fourth district where his state. Also since 1883, he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department. In 1884 he declined a further nomination. In the same year he became president of the company Post Publishing Co. In the elections of 1886, Morse was elected a second time in the Congress. This time there, he represented the third electoral district of his state. Between March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889, he graduated from another term, during which he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1888 he gave up another Congress candidate.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives sat Leopold Morse continued his earlier activities. He died on December 15, 1892 in Boston.