Education
Until the age of fourteen he attended the public schools.
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Freeman Harlow Morse
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He was elected to the Twenty-eighth Congress on the Whig ticket in a Democratic district.
His last speech before his retirement, Mar. 3, 1845, was in opposition to the annexation of Texas.
As the war proceeded, this office became of increasing importance.
Morse was closely associated with Charles Francis Adams in the task of gathering evidence regarding British-built privateers.
But he was not to hold this post long; Gen. Adam Badeau [q. v. ] replaced him in July 1870.
He became a British citizen, continuing, however, to perform many friendly services for Americans in England.
[Abner Morse, Memorial of the Morses (1850), App. , p. xc; H. D. Lord, Memorial of the Family of Morse (1896); Souvenir of the 300th Anniversary of Am.
Shipbuilding, Bath, Maine, Aug. 5-9, 1907; obituary in Bath (Me. )
Daily Times. ]
Religion
A young men's debating society of which he was a member gave him his first training in the preparation and delivery of speeches.
Politics
His ability attracted the attention of local politicians and as a Whig he represented his district in the state legislature in 1840, 1841, and 1843.
Becoming a zealous advocate of the principles of the Republican party, he was returned to Congress, serving two terms, Mar. 4, 1857, to Mar. 3, 1861.
Connections
- married:
- Leavitt
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- Leavitt
His wife, Nancy Leavitt of Bath, whom he had married on Apr. 21, 1834, returned to America with their two daughters and lived for a time in Wellesley Hills, Massachussets Morse died of old age in Surbiton, Surrey, England, and is buried in the churchyard of the parish of St. Mary's, Long Ditton.
His wife, Nancy Leavitt of Bath, whom he had married on Apr. 21, 1834, returned to America with their two daughters and lived for a time in Wellesley Hills, Massachussets Morse died of old age in Surbiton, Surrey, England, and is buried in the churchyard of the parish of St. Mary's, Long Ditton.
