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Marcus Morton
Marcus Morton (1784 – February 6, 1864) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Taunton, Massachusetts. He served two terms as Governor of Massachusetts and several months as Acting Governor following the death in 1825 of William Eustis. He served for 15 years as an Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, all the while running unsuccessfully as a Democrat for governor. He finally won the 1839 election, acquiring exactly the number of votes required for a majority win over Edward Everett. After losing the 1840 and 1841 elections, he and was reelected in another narrow victory in 1842.
The Massachusetts Democratic Party was highly factionalized, which contributed to Morton's long string of defeats. His brief periods of ascendancy, however, resulted in no substantive Democratic-supported reforms, since the dominant Whigs reversed most of the changes enacted during his terms. An opponent of the extension of slavery, he split with longtime friend John C. Calhoun over that issue, and eventually left the party for the Free Soil movement. He was considered by Martin Van Buren as a potential vice presidential running mate in 1848.
==Early years==
Morton was born in East Freetown, Massachusetts in 1784, the only son of Nathaniel and Mary (Cary) Morton. Sources report his day of birth to be either February or December 19.〔〔Swackhamer, p. 384〕 His father was a farmer who was politically active, serving for a time on the Governor's Council.〔 Morton received his early education at home, and was placed at age fourteen in the academy of Reverend Calvin Chaddock at Rochester, Massachusetts.〔Swackhamer, p. 385〕〔Earle, p. 63; Earle incorrectly locates Chaddock in Rochester, New York. (Leonard, p. 82 establishes Chaddock's location.)〕
In 1801 Morton was admitted to Brown University with the sophomore class, and graduated in 1804. During his time at Brown came to adopt Jeffersonian ideas, making an outspoken anti-Federalist speech at his commencement.〔Earle, pp. 63–64〕 He then read law at Taunton for a year in the office of Judge Seth Padelford, after which he entered Tapping Reeve's law school in Litchfield, Connecticut.〔Emery, p. 62〕 There he was a schoolmate of John C. Calhoun, who served as a mentor and friend for many years.〔Earle, p. 64〕 Moving back to Taunton, he was admitted to the Norfolk County bar in 1807 and opened a practice. In December of that year he married Charlotte Hodges, with whom he had twelve children.〔Swackhamer, p. 386〕 He later received honorary law degrees from Brown (1826), and Harvard (1840).〔
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