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Jun 07, 1856 Louisville, Kentucky, United States Died on 13 Apr 1910 (aged 53)
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About Morris B. Belknap
- Morris Burke Belknap (June 7, 1856 – April 13, 1910), also known as Colonel Morris Burke Belknap, was a businessman from Louisville, Kentucky, and the Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky in 1903.
- After earning a degree from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, he worked at his father's hardware company.
- Later, he co-founded an agricultural implement company.
- In 1883, he married Lily Buckner, with whom he fathered four children.
- Following the death of his father, Belknap became vice-president of his hardware company, a position which he held for the rest of his life.
- Lily Buckner Belknap died in 1893, and he married Marion S.
- Dumont in 1900. In addition to his business career.
- Belknap served in the Kentucky State Guard, eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
- In 1898, during the Spanish–American War, he served briefly in Puerto Rico prior to the end of hostilities.
- He was promoted to colonel before his honorable discharge in 1899. In 1903, Belknap accepted the nomination for state governor after being chosen at the Kentucky Republican convention in that year.
- He campaigned on his business experience and opposition to policies of the current governor, but he was ultimately defeated by the incumbent J.
- C.
- W.
- Beckham. After his unsuccessful gubernatorial run, he spent his later life involved in a variety of civil and religious organizations.
- On April 13, 1910, he died of pernicious anemia, a condition which is believed to have been worsened by a mysterious ailment he contracted while in Puerto Rico.
