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Biography of Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton
Name: Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton
Birth Date: August 4, 1823
Death Date: November 1, 1877
Place of Birth: Salisbury, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, governor
Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton
The American politician Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton (1823-1877), as governor of Indiana during the Civil War, ably organized support for the Union.Oliver Perry Morton was born on Aug. 4, 1823, in Salisbury, Ind., but grew up in Ohio. After 2 years at Miami University in Ohio, he left in 1845 to read law in Centreville, Ind. He served briefly as a circuit judge in 1852. Although a strongly partisan Democrat, Morton broke with his party over the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which allowed the further extension of slavery into new territories, and he was expelled for disloyalty. Finding reconciliation impossible, he helped found the Indiana Republican party. In 1860 he was elected lieutenant governor and became governor when the incumbent went to the Senate.Morton zealously favored the Civil War and energetically threw the resources of his state behind the national government. He quickly and effectively raised troops, money, and supplies. But the political situation in …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…finance state operations and continued as before. The crisis ended when Morton was reelected with a Republican legislature in 1864.Morton suffered a stroke in 1865. In 1866 he joined other Republicans in denouncing President Andrew Johnson's conservative Reconstruction policies. Morton was elected to the Senate in 1867, where he generally supported the Radical Republicans. He backed military reconstruction, the 14th and 15th Amendments, and Johnson's impeachment in 1868. He served as a member of the electoral commission to decide the Hayes-Tilden election controversy in 1876. He died in Indianapolis on Nov. 1, 1877, of another stroke. Further Reading William Dudley Foulke, Life of Oliver P. Morton (2 vols., 1899, 1974), is a complete, albeit partisan, biography. The Indiana political situation is well described in Kenneth M. Stampp, Indiana Politics during the Civil War (1949). Frank L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960), is an excellent analysis of Morton's opponents. Also useful is William Best Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (1948).
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