Background
MORTON, Levi Parsons was born on May 16, 1824 in Shoreham, Vermont, United States. Son of Reverend Dan. Oliver and Lucretia Parsons Morton.
Vice-President of the United States
MORTON, Levi Parsons was born on May 16, 1824 in Shoreham, Vermont, United States. Son of Reverend Dan. Oliver and Lucretia Parsons Morton.
Shoreham Academy.; Doctor of Laws.
Founded the Banking Houses of L. P. Morton and Company, Morton, Bliss, and Company, New York, and Morton, Rose, and Company, Morton, Chaplin, and Company, London, and the Morton Trust Company, New York. Member of Congress from New York, 1878-1881. United States Minister to France, 1881-1885.
Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate, 1889-1893. Governor of the State of New York, 1895 and 1896. Dartmouth College 1891, and Middleburg College 1893, bestowed on him Doctor of Laws.
Clubs : Century, Union, Metropolitan, Union League of New York, Lawyers, Republican, Downtown.