Representative Martin Andrew Morrison

Martin Andrew Morrison served as a Representative from Indiana in the United States Congress from 1909 to 1917. A member of the Democratic Party, Martin Andrew Morrison contributed to the legislative process during 4 terms in office.

Martin Andrew Morrison’s service in Congress occurred during a significant period in American history. As a member of the House of Representatives, Martin Andrew Morrison participated in the democratic process and represented the interests of constituents.

Martin Andrew Morrison (April 15, 1862 – July 9, 1944) was a U.S. representative from Indiana. Born in Frankfort, Indiana, Morrison attended a public school. He graduated from Butler College, Irvington, Indiana, in June 1883 and from the law department of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1886. He was admitted to the bar the same year and began his law practice in Frankfort, Indiana. County attorney of Clinton County in 1905 and 1906. He served as member of the board of education 1907–1909. Morrison was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1909 – March 3, 1917). He served as chairman of the Committee on Patents (Sixty-fourth Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916, but instead resumed the practice of law. He served as President of the United States Civil Service Commission from March 1919 to July 1921 and became a member of the legal staff of the chief counsel of the Federal Trade Commission at Washington, D.C., on December 10, 1925, and served until his retirement on April 30, 1942, maintaining his residence in Washington, D.C. He died in Abingdon, Virginia on July 9, 1944, while on a vacation. He was buried in Bunnell Cemetery, Frankfort, Indiana.