Atherton, George Washington. The Legislative Career of Justin Smith Morrill: An Address Delivered at New Haven, Connecticut, November 14, 1900. Harrisburg, PA: J. Horace McFarland Co., 1900.
MORRILL, Justin Smith
1810–1898
Biography
MORRILL, Justin Smith, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Strafford, Orange County, Vt., April 14, 1810; attended the common schools and Thetford and Randolph Academies; a merchant's clerk in Strafford 1825-1828 and in Portland, Maine, 1828-1831; merchant in Strafford 1831-1848; engaged in agriculture and horticulture 1848-1855; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1867), when he became Senator; author of the Tariff Act of 1861 and of the land-grant bill, which bears his name; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-ninth Congress); elected as a Union Republican to the United States Senate in 1866; reelected as a Republican in 1872, 1878, 1884, 1890 and 1896 and served from March 4, 1867, until his death; chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Forty-first through Forty-fourth Congresses), Committee on Finance (Forty-fifth, Forty-seventh through Fifty-second, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses); regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1883-1898; trustee of the University of Vermont 1865-1898; died in Washington, D.C., December 28, 1898; interment in the City Cemetery, Strafford, Vt.
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1814-1937, 1982. 3.3 cubic feet. Correspondence, speeches, and printed material on Civil War and Reconstruction, the status of freed blacks, the tariff and international trade, passage of the Land Grant College Act; scrapbooks; photographs; and memorabilia. Finding aid.
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1867-1897. .5 linear foot. Correspondence, reports, and circulars chiefly concerning the tariff.
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1825-1923. 22 linear feet. Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter covering his legislative career and relating to the Morrill tariff act of 1861, Land Grant College acts, and his position on many controversial post-Civil War issues. Includes the manuscript of his Wanderings and scribblings (1841). Available on 52 microfilm reels. Finding aid.
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1828-1898 (bulk 1855-1898). 150 items. Correspondence, congressional bills, speeches, notes, clippings, pamphlets, and personal papers. Papers relate to his interest in the tariff, in buildings and grounds in Washington, DC, and in the land-grant colleges. Finding aid.
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1872-1873. 2 letters. From J.N. Denison concerning Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company.
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1828-1896. 270 items. Correspondence, speeches, essays, account books, and portraits. Also correspondence in the Solomon Foot papers.
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In Daniel Coit Gilman papers, 1845-1910.
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Bibliography / Further Reading
Florer, John H. "Major Issues in the Congressional Debate of the Morrill Act of 1862." History of Education Quarterly 8 (Winter 1968): 459-78.
Cross, Coy F. Justin Smith Morrill: Father of the Land Grant Colleges. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.
Hoyer, Randal Leigh. "The Gentleman from Vermont: The Career of Justin S. Morrill in the United States House of Representatives." Ph.D. dissertation, Michigan State University, 1974.
Hills, Joseph L. "Justin Smith Morrill." Vermonters: A Book of Biographies. Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1931, pp. 162-165.
Merrill, George D. "Jonathan Turner or Justin Morrill: A New Look at the Authorship of the Land Grant Act of 1862." Vermont History 36 (Autumn 1968): 204-9.
Morrill, Justin S. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. 1882. Reprint. Boston: Ticknor & Co., 1887.
Parker, William Belmont. The Life and Public Services of Justin Smith Morrill. 1924. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Justin S. Morrill (Late a Senator from Vermont). 55th Cong., 3d sess., 1898-1899. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899.