Clifford Phelps Morehouse

Background

Morehouse, Clifford Phelps was born on April 18, 1904 in Milwaukee. Son of Frederic Cook and Lilias E. (Macon) Morehouse.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1925. Master of Arts, Marquette University, 1937. Doctor of Laws, Nashotah, 1948, Brown University, 1962.

South.T.D., General Theological Seminary, 1967.

Career

Secretary Morehouse-Barlow Company, 1925-1939, vice president, 1932-1964, president 1964-1968, Chairman of the Board, editorial consultant, 1968-1970. Managing editor The Living Church, 1926-1932, editor, 1932-1952. Episcopalian; past warden, vestryman.

Historiographer Trinity Church, New York City, 1968-1973.

Trustee Cathedral Saint John Divine, New York City, 1948-1952. Alternate delegate Assembly World Council Churches, Amsterdam, 1948, delegate, Evanston, 1954, New Delhi, 1961, Uppsala, 1968.

Member standing committee Diocese Milwaukee, 1932-1943. Delegate Synod Midwest Province, 1930-1936.

Deputy General Convention, 1934-1967.

Delegate World Conference on Faith and Order, Edinburgh, 1937, Lund, Sweden, 1952. Delegate to North.A. Ecumenical Conference, Toronto, 1941. Delegate Federal Council Churches, 1940-1948.

Vice chairman Milwaukee unit United States Committee care European Children, 1940.

Member National Committee Food for Small Democracies, 1940-1941. Vice president Associate Church Press, 1941-1942.

Special representative church press at enthronement Archbishop of Canterbury, 1942. Special delegate from Episcopal Church to visit and study Church of South. India, 1956.

President house of deps.

Episcopal Church, 1961-1967, member executive council, 1967-1973. Delegate Anglican Congress, Toronto, 1963.

Achievements

• Clifford Phelps Morehouse has been listed as a noteworthy editors by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member standing committee Diocese Milwaukee, 1932-1943. Member National Committee Food for Small Democracies, 1940-1941. Served as Second lieutenant Field Artillery Reserve, 1925-1932.

Member Sigma Delta Chirurgical

Clubs: Harvard (New York City).

Connections

Married Ellen Louise Smith, March 16, 1927. Children: Ellen Louise (Mistress James L. Henry), Lilias Macon (Mistress Jackson M. Bruce, Junior.

Father:

Frederic Cook Morehouse

Mother:

Lilias East. (Macon) Morehouse

Spouse:

Ellen Louise Smith

child:

Ellen Louise Morehouse (Mistress James L. Henry)

child:

Junior Morehouse

child:

Lilias Macon (Mistress Jackson M. Bruce Morehouse