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Edward de Veaux Morrell (August 7, 1863 – September 1, 1917) was a
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member of the
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from
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.


Early life

Morrell was born in
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on August 7, 1863. He was the son of Edward Morrell and Ida Alicia ( née Powel) Morrell. He attended private schools and graduated from the
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, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1885. He studied law at the
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, was admitted to the bar in 1887 and commenced practice in
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. He was a member of the select council of Philadelphia from 1891 to 1894. He was active in the
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, serving as a colonel of the Third Regiment and brigadier general commanding the First Brigade.


Career

Morrell was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred C. Harmer. He was reelected to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses. He served as chairman of the House
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during the Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses. In 1904, he delivered a speech defending the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendment from Democrats' polemics against it. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1906. He established the first telephone line north of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, and built an electric-light plant there. He was a member of the board of education of Philadelphia from 1912 to 1916.


Personal life

In 1889, he was married to Louise Bouvier Drexel (1863 –1945), daughter of
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and niece of Anthony J. Drexel, the most influential financier in the U.S. in the nineteenth century. Louise's mother, Emma Bouvier, was the aunt of John Vernou Bouvier, Jr., U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's paternal grandfather. Louise's half-sister was canonized as
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on October 1, 2000 by
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. He was a resident of the
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section of Philadelphia. He later went to Colorado Springs, Colorado, for his health, and died there in 1917. He interred in the family crypt at Eden Hall in Torresdale.


References


Further reading


Edward Morrell
at ''The Political Graveyard''


External links



{{DEFAULTSORT:Morrell, Edward de Veaux 1863 births 1917 deaths University of Pennsylvania alumni Politicians from Philadelphia Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania School board members in Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni