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May 03, 1813 Belgrade, Maine, United States Died on 10 Jan 1883 (aged 69)
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About Lot M. Morrill
- Lot Myrick Morrill (May 3, 1813 – January 10, 1883) was an American statesman who served as the 28th Governor of Maine, in the United States Senate, and as Secretary of the Treasury appointed by President Ulysses S.
- Grant.
- Morrill was an accomplished politician serving in several elected and appointed offices throughout his lifetime.
- Morrill, as Secretary of Treasury, was devoted to hard currency rather than paper money and dedicated himself to serve the public good rather than party interests.
- Morrill was popularly received as Treasury Secretary by the American press and Wall Street, and was known for his financial and political integrity.
- Morrill was President Grant's fourth and last Secretary of the Treasury. A native of Maine, Morrill was educated in public school and after briefly attending Waterville College served as principal of a private school in New York.
- He studied law and passed the bar in 1839, afterwards setting up law practices in Readfield and Augusta, Maine.
- Morrill, known for his eloquent speaking, soon become popular among Democratic friends advocating temperance.
- Morrill was elected to Maine's House of Representatives in 1854 as a Democrat and served as Chairman of the Maine Democratic Party.
- However, as the nation divided over slavery during the 1850s, Morrill's politics changed and he went over to the Republican Party for the sole reason that the Republicans were opposed to the expansion of slavery.
- He was elected Maine's state senator in 1856 as a Republican, and elected Governor of Maine in 1858, serving until 1861 during the outbreak of the American Civil War.
- Morrill was elected Maine's U.S.
- Senator in 1861 when a vacancy opened in the U.S.
- Senate, after Sen.
- Hannibal Hamlin assumed the office of Vice President under President Abraham Lincoln.
- Morrill's extended tenure for almost 15 years as U.S.
- Senator took place during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
- Morrill sponsored legislation that outlawed slavery in Washington D.C.
- and advocated education and suffrage for African American freedman. In 1876, Sen.
- Morrill was appointed U.S.
- Secretary of the Treasury by President Grant, to fill in a vacancy after Sec.
- Benjamin Bristow resigned from office.
- His political rival James G.
- Blaine was appointed Maine's Senator after Morrill resigned from the Senate to accept the position of Secretary of Treasury.
- Morrill's tenure was less than a year.
- Upon his retirement from the Treasury Department, President Rutherford B.
- Hayes appointed Morrill to the Collector of Customs in Portland, Maine, where he held this position until his death in 1883.
