Thruston Ballard Morton

Thruston Ballard Morton ( born August 19, 1907 in Louisville, Kentucky; † August 14, 1982 ibid ) was an American politician of the Republican Party, who represented the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress.

Morton was after his bachelor's degree at Yale University, first in the grain industry operates. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant Commander in the Reserve of the United States Navy. He then became director of the Chamber of Commerce of Louisville.

1946 Morton was elected to represent Kentucky's House of Representatives of the United States. He defeated the Democratic incumbent Emmet O'Neal with a lead of around 17,000 votes. He belonged to Parliament three legislatures in until January 1953.

As a result, Morton was appointed to the government of President Dwight D. Eisenhower: From January 1953 to February 1956 he served as Secretary of State for Congress Relations ( Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1956 he ran for the Senate then, where he had to do it again with an incumbent of the Democratic Party. While Earle C. Clements came to 499 922 votes, Morton sat just through with 506 903 votes. In 1962 he also won re-election against the Deputy Governor Wilson W. Wyatt. On December 16, 1968, he resigned from his position a few weeks before the end of his term down to allow his party colleague Marlow Cook moving up an earlier entry.

Morton, who was from 1959 to 1961 Chairman of the Republican National Committee, was considered a moderate Republican. So he agreed with his party colleague John Sherman Cooper in 1964 for the Civil Rights Act. In 1968 he was one of the interviewees for the documentary In the Year of the Pig, the illuminated critical of the Vietnam War.

His younger brother Rogers Morton was indoor and trade ministers of the United States.