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Title |
Thruston and Rogers Morton Photographs |
Collection |
Thruston and Rogers Morton Photograph Collection |
Catalog Number |
023PC32 |
Date |
1943-1960s |
Location |
Kentucky |
Description |
A small group of fifteen photographs of Kentucky Senator Thruston B. Morton and U. S. House Representative Rogers C. B. Morton. Two items [023PC32.14-.15] have been removed and are stored in the individual oversized collection. Thruston Ballard Morton was a prominent political and business leader in Kentucky during the mid-twentieth century. He was born in Louisville in 1907. As a young student, Morton attended public schools and the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia. He graduated from Yale University in 1929. He married Belle Clay Lyons in 1931 and together they had two sons. From 1947 to 1953, Thruston Morton served three terms as a representative for Kentucky’s Third Congressional District. After his tenure in the house, Morton was appointed Assistant Secretary of State of Congressional Relations by President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 until 1956. Additionally, Thruston Morton served two terms in the U. S. Senate representing the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1957 to 1969. Morton was Chairman of the Republican National Committee and one of the first conservatives to withdraw support from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam War policies. Thruston occasionally dissented from conservative Republican economic stances. He was continually a strong supporter of civil rights. After his retirement from the Senate, Morton remained active in the Louisville business community, serving as Vice-Chairman of the Board and Director of Liberty National Bank and Chairman of the Board and Director of Churchill Downs. He also served as a Director and Advisor for the Louisville Board of Trade, Pillsbury Company, Texas Gas Company, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the Pittston Company, the University of Louisville, Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor and the Ohio Valley Assembly. Morton died in Louisville in 1982. Rogers C. B. Morton was born in Louisville in 1914. Like Thruston, he also received his education as a young boy at the Woodberry Forest School. He graduated from Yale University in 1937, and went on to study at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for one year. Rogers Morton served in the U. S. Navy in 1938 before entering his family's flour milling business. He married Anne Jones in 1939, and together they had two children. In 1941, he enlisted in the U. S. Army as a private and served in Europe before leaving as a captain in 1945. Following the war, Morton rejoined the family business and served as president from 1947 to 1951, and then as a director and member of the executive committee for the Pillsbury Flour Company after Ballard and Ballard merged with Pillsbury. Rogers spent a lot of time helping his brother's political campaigns, and this exposure ultimately contributed to his own career in politics. In 1962, he was elected to the House of Representatives. Morton was heavily involved in Richard Nixon's campaign for president which resulted in his appointment as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1968. Morton went on to serve as Secretary of the Interior from 1971 to 1975, overseeing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and the 1973 oil crisis. Morton continued his post under Gerard Fold until being nominated as Secretary of Commerce in 1976. Morton ran Ford's campaign for election and retired from politics after his defeat in 1976. All items have been digitized: 023PC32.01: Unidentified children. 023PC32.02: Rogers C. B. Morton with Major General Alvan C. Gillen, Jr., at his graduation from the Armored Force O. C. S., May 25, 1943 023PC32.03: Army portrait of Rogers C. B. Morton, ca. 1943 023PC32.04: Black-and-white group photograph including Rogers C. B. Morton and Thruston Morton with two women (possibly Jane Morton Norton and Belle Morton) and two children, ca. 1950 023PC32.05: Political portrait of Rogers C. B. Morton, ca. 1970 023PC32.06: Real photo postcard with Thruston Morton and his sister, Jane Morton, as children, ca. 1909 023PC32.07-.11: Courier Journal photograph portraits and stills of Thruston B. Morton, ca. 1960 023PC32.12: Thruston B. Morton pictured with journalist Tom Brokaw and two unidentified others, ca. 1968 023PC32.13: Photograph of journalist Tom Brokaw and an unidentified man, ca. 1968 023PC32.14: Black-and-white photograph of Thruston and Belle Morton, when Thruston is receiving the election news for his run for the U.S. Senate, November 7, 1962. 023PC32.15: Black-and-white photograph of Thruston and Belle Morton, when Thruston is receiving the election news for his run for the U.S. Senate, November 7, 1962. |
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Kentucky Political candidates Politicians Politics and government U.S. states - Politics and government United States |