| Author Info | - John Torrey Morse Jr. (January 9, 1840 – March 28, 1937) was a historian, attorney, and politician in the United States. John Torrey Morse was born on January 9, 1840, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Torrey Morse Sr. and Lucy Cabot Jackson. After three years of study, he graduated from Harvard College and read law at the office of John Lowell. In 1862, he was admitted to the bar. In 1874, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Boston's Back Bay's 6th Suffolk district. He was sentenced to one year in prison. Morse served on the Harvard Board of Overseers from 1879 until 1891. Harvard conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature in 1911. Morse began his legal career by producing many authoritative legal treatises on banking, arbitration, and award, as well as contributing to journals. His legal writing established him as a renowned specialist on the issues. Morse's most major work, a two-volume biography of Alexander Hamilton, was released in 1876. Soon after, in 1880, he left his law practice to pursue literary endeavors. In 1865, Morse married Fanny P. Hovey of Boston. They had two boys, Cabot Jackson Morse and John Torrey Morse III, as well as a daughter, Charlotte. They lived on Boston's Fairfield Street.
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