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Name:               Justin Smith Morrill
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MORRILL, Justin Smith, (1810 - 1898) 

Senate Years of Service: 1867-1898 
Party: Republican 
 
MORRILL, Justin Smith, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in 
Strafford, Orange County, Vt., April 14, 1810; attended the common schools and 
Thetford and Randolph Academies; a merchant’s clerk in Strafford 1825-1828 and 
in Portland, Maine, 1828-1831; merchant in Strafford 1831-1848; engaged in 
agriculture and horticulture 1848-1855; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth 
Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-
March 3, 1867), when he became Senator; author of the Tariff Act of 1861 and 
of the land-grant bill, which bears his name; chairman, Committee on Ways and 
Means (Thirty-ninth Congress); elected as a Union Republican to the United 
States Senate in 1866; reelected as a Republican in 1872, 1878, 1884, 1890 and 
1896 and served from March 4, 1867, until his death; chairman, Committee on 
Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-first through Forty-fourth Congresses), 
Committee on Finance (Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh through Fifty-second, Fifty-
fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1883-
1898; trustee of the University of Vermont 1865-1898; died in Washington, 
D.C., December 28, 1898; interment in the City Cemetery, Strafford, Vt. 

Bibliography

American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Hoyer, Randal 
L. “The Gentleman from Vermont: The Career of Justin S. Morrill in the United 
States House of Representatives.” Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State 
University, 1974; Parker, William. The Life and Public Services of Justin 
Smith Morrill. 1924. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.


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