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Oliver H. P. T. Morton

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Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton
Born:
Aug. 4, 1823, Salisbury, Ind., U.S.
Died:
Nov. 1, 1877, Indianapolis, Ind. (aged 54)

Oliver H. P. T. Morton (born Aug. 4, 1823, Salisbury, Ind., U.S.—died Nov. 1, 1877, Indianapolis, Ind.) was an American political leader and governor of Indiana during the American Civil War. After a brief attendance at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, Morton set up a law practice in Centerville, Ind., in 1845 and involved himself in Democratic politics. Breaking with the party over the Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854, he participated in the formation of the Republican Party and in 1856 ran unsuccessfully for governor of Indiana. Elected lieutenant governor in 1860, he became governor the next year when Governor Henry ...(100 of 221 words)

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