Background
Morey, Frank was born on July 11, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
United States representative politician
Morey, Frank was born on July 11, 1840 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Morey attended the public schools. He studied law, but at the onset of the American he entered the Union Army in 1861 in the Thirty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war.
He was elected as a United States. Representative from Louisiana, serving from 1869-1876. His election in 1876 was contested and he lost his seat in June of that year to Democrat William B. Spencer. Afterward, Morey moved to Washington, District of Columbia, where he practiced law.
At the age of 17, he moved to Illinois.
After the war, Morey settled in Louisiana in 1866. He engaged in cotton planting and the insurance business.
He was appointed as a commissioner to revise the statutes and codes of the State under Reconstruction, to reflect national constitutional amendments granting freedmen citizenship and the right to vote. He served as commissioner to the Vienna Exposition in 1873.
Morey was also elected in 1868 as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress, winning re-election and serving in the Forty-second and Forty-third congresses.
He served from 1869-1876. Morey"s election was overturned by Congress in June 1876, and Spencer took the seat. The Democrats also regained control of the Louisiana state legislature that year, in an election marked by violence as the White League worked to suppress black voting.
In 1877 federal troops were withdrawn from the state with the end of Reconstruction.
Morey moved to Washington, District of Columbia, and practiced law. He died there September 22, 1890.
He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.
He was elected as a Republican member of the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869.