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Leopold Morse (August 15, 1831 – December 15, 1892) was a
United States representative
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from Massachusetts
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Biography
Morse was born inWachenheim
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, Bavaria
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, in the German Confederation
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, the son of Charlotte (Mehlinger) and Jacob Morse. His family was Jewish. He attended the common schools in Wachenheim. He immigrated to the United States in 1849 and resided for about a year in Sandwich, New Hampshire
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.
He moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked in a clothing store, which he later purchased and operated until his death.
About 1850 Morse opened a clothing store in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Morse was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1876 and 1880. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate in 1870
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The first edition of ''The Northern Echo'' newspaper is published in Priestgate, Darlington, England.
** Plans for the Brooklyn Bridge are completed.
* January 3 – Construction of the ...
and 1872
Events
January–March
* January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years.
* February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...
for election to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. ''The Boston Globe
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'' later noted that "few men step, as he did, from private station, immediately upon the floor of Congress, and he adnever gone before the people except as a candidate for membership in that body". He was elected to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1885). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy Navy Department or Department of the Navy may refer to:
* United States Department of the Navy,
* Navy Department (Ministry of Defence), in the United Kingdom, 1964-1997
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(Forty-eighth Congress). He declined to accept a renomination in 1884
Events
January–March
* January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London.
* January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's '' Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London.
* January 18 – Dr. William Price at ...
. Morse was elected president of the Post Publishing Co. publisher of ''The Boston Post
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Edwin Grozier bough ...
'', in that year. He returned to elected office as a Representative to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). He served as chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State for the Congress.
Morse was not a candidate for renomination in 1888
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. He resumed business activities, and died in Boston on December 15, 1892.
Morse was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge
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.
Morse's brother was lawyer Godfrey Morse.
See also
* List of Jewish members of the United States CongressReferences
External links
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