Stanford Morse
| Stanford Everett Morse, Jr. | |
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| Mississippi State Senator from Harrison and Stone counties | |
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In office 1956–1964 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 31, 1926 Gulfport, Harrison County Mississippi, USA |
| Died | February 28, 2002 (aged 75) |
| Political party | Democrat-turned-Republican (1963) |
| Spouse(s) | Sally Ann Reilly Morse |
| Children |
Stanford E. Morse, III |
| Parents |
Stanford E. Morse, Sr. |
| Residence | Gulfport, Mississippi |
| Alma mater | University of Mississippi School of Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Stanford E. Morse, III
Stanford E. Morse, Sr.
Stanford Everett Morse, Jr. (May 31, 1926 – February 28, 2002), was a lawyer from Gulfport, Mississippi, and a two-term Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate. In April 1963, he switched to Republican affiliation to run unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor on the ticket headed by Rubel Phillips. A former Democratic member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from Corinth, Phillips also changed parties in 1963 in a bid to become his state's first GOP governor since Reconstruction.
Morse was born in Gulfport to the attorney Stanford E. Morse, Sr. (1900–1964), a native of Wesson in Copiah County in southwestern Mississippi, and Ernestine Neuhardt Morse (1905–1932), originally from Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was George E. Neuhart, a native of Ohio who was an attorney and a judge in Memphis. Mrs. Morse left behind two six-year-old sons when she died at the age of twenty-seven. The senior Morse had relocated in 1922 from the capital city of Jackson to Gulfport. He became a partner in the legal firm of Ford, White, and Morse, which operated from the Abstract Building in Gulfport. After twelve years as a widower, the senior Morse married a widow, Wilhelmina Sewell Roberts Sherrill (1895–1982). She was the daughter of a physician, William J. Roberts, who later practiced medicine in rural Colfax in Grant Parish in north central Louisiana. She was known in her later years as Billie R. Morse. The wedding ceremony was held at her home in Pass Christian in Harrison County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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