Martin A. Morrison

Martin Andrew Morrison ( born April 15, 1862 in Frankfort, Clinton County, Indiana; † July 9, 1944 in Abingdon, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1917 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Morrison attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1883, the Butler College in Irvington. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and its made ​​in 1886 admitted to the bar he began to work in Frankfort in this profession. In the years 1905 and 1906, Morrison served as a prosecutor in the Clinton County. From 1907 to 1909 he sat in the local Board of Education.

Politically Morrison was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1908 he was in the ninth constituency of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles B. Landis on March 4, 1909. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1917 four legislative sessions. Between 1915 and 1917 he headed the Patent Committee. In 1913 were the 16th and the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified.

1916 Morrison waived a renewed Congress candidacy. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. From 1919 to 1921 he was the successor of John Avery McIlhenny, the Federal Authority Civil Service Commission, which addressed matters of public services; 1925-1942 he was a member of the legal advisory board of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington. Martin Morrison died during a visit to Virginia on July 9, 1944, and was buried in Frankfort.

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