Martin Andrew Morrison (April 15, 1862 – July 9, 1944) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Morrison attended a public school. He graduated from Butler College,

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, in June 1883 and from the law department of the

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in 1886. He was

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the same year and began his law practice in

. County attorney of Clinton County in 1905 and 1906. He served as member of the board of education 1907–1909. Morrison was elected as a

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to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1917). He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents ( Sixty-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916, but instead resumed the practice of law. He served as president of the United States Civil Service Commission from March 1919 to July 1921 and became a member of the legal staff of the chief counsel of the Federal Trade Commission at

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on December 10, 1925, and served until his retirement on April 30, 1942, maintaining his residence in

He died in

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on July 9, 1944 while on a vacation. He was buried in Bunnell Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Martin Andrew 1862 births 1944 deaths People from Frankfort, Indiana University of Virginia School of Law alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana