Levi Parsons Morton
| Levi P. Morton | |
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| 22nd Vice President of the United States | |
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In office March 4, 1889 – March 4, 1893 |
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| President | Benjamin Harrison |
| Preceded by | Thomas A. Hendricks |
| Succeeded by | Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 31st Governor of New York | |
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In office January 1, 1895 – December 31, 1896 |
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| Lieutenant | Charles T. Saxton |
| Preceded by | Roswell P. Flower |
| Succeeded by | Frank S. Black |
| United States Minister to France | |
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In office March 21, 1881 – May 14, 1885 |
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| Appointed by | James A. Garfield |
| Preceded by | Edward Follansbee Noyes |
| Succeeded by | Robert Milligan McLane |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 11th district | |
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In office March 4, 1879 – March 21, 1881 |
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| Preceded by | Benjamin A. Willis |
| Succeeded by | Roswell P. Flower |
| Personal details | |
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Levi Parsons Morton May 16, 1824 Shoreham, Vermont, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 1920 (aged 96) Rhinebeck, New York, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
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| Children | 7 |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
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Levi Parsons Morton (May 16, 1824 – May 16, 1920) was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President of the United States (1889–93). He later served as the 31st Governor of New York.
Morton was born in Shoreham, Vermont. His parents were the Reverend Daniel Oliver Morton (1788–1852), a Congregationalist minister and Lucretia Parsons (1789–1862). His older brother, Daniel O. Morton (1815–59), was Mayor of Toledo, Ohio from 1849 to 1850.
Morton's family moved to Springfield, Vermont in 1832 when his father became the minister of the Congregational church there. Rev. Morton headed the congregation during the construction of the brick colonial revival style church on Main Street that is still in use today. Levi P. Morton was considered by his Springfield peers to be a "leader in all affairs in which schoolboys usually engage." The family moved away when Rev. Morton was reassigned in 1836.
Morton left school early and worked as a clerk in a general store in Enfield, Massachusetts, taught school in Boscawen, New Hampshire, engaged in mercantile pursuits in Hanover, New Hampshire, and moved to Boston to work in the Beebe & Co. importing business. He eventually settled in New York City, where he entered the dry-goods business, became a successful cotton broker, and established himself as one of the country's top investment bankers in a firm he founded, Morton, Bliss & Co. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the 45th Congress, and was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes to be an honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition of 1878.
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