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Stanford Everett Morse, Jr. (May 31, 1926 - February 28, 2002), was a lawyer from Gulfport, Mississippi, and a two-term Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate. In April 1963, he switched to Republican affiliation to run unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor on the ticket headed by Rubel Phillips. A former Democratic member of the Mississippi Public Service Commission from Corinth, Phillips also changed parties in 1963 in a bid to become his state's first GOP governor since Reconstruction. ==Background== Morse was born in Gulfport to the attorney Stanford E. Morse, Sr. (1900-1964), a native of Wesson in Copiah County in southwestern Mississippi, and Ernestine Neuhardt Morse (1905-1932), originally from Memphis, Tennessee. Her father was George E. Neuhart, a native of Ohio who was an attorney and a judge in Memphis. Mrs. Morse left behind two six-year-old sons when she died at the age of twenty-seven. The senior Morse had relocated in 1922 from the capital city of Jackson to Gulfport. He became a partner in the legal firm of Ford, White, and Morse, which operated from the Abstract Building in Gulfport. After twelve years as a widower, the senior Morse married a widow, Wilhelmina Sewell Roberts Sherrill (1895-1982). She was the daughter of a physician, William J. Roberts, who later practiced medicine in rural Colfax in Grant Parish in north central Louisiana. She was known in her later years as Billie R. Morse. The wedding ceremony was held at her home in Pass Christian in Harrison County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.〔 Stanford Morse, Jr., and his twin brother, George E. Morse (1926-2003),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George E. Morse )〕 graduated in 1947 from the University of Mississippi at Oxford〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=University of Mississippi (Class of 1947) )〕 They received their law degrees from the University of Mississippi School of Law and became lifelong law partners.〔 With their father's second marriage, Stanford and George Morse acquired a step-brother, Hugh Virgil Sherrill (1920-2010), a graduate of Yale University and a decorated United States Navy pilot in World War II who destroyed four Japanese fighter planes on February 17, 1945, in an air battle over Tokyo Bay. Later a lawyer and businessman in New York City. Sherrill married Betty Stevens (born 1924), a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and subsequently for many years a New York businesswoman and socialite.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stanford Morse )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York Social Diary: Betty Sherrill )〕〔George Morse outlived his brother Stanford by some nineteen months; their step-brother outlived them both. Stanford Morse, Sr., his second wife Wilhelmina, and son George Morse, and his wife, Nancy Wood Morse (1930-2006), are interred at Live Oak Cemetery in Pass Christian, which was damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The first wife of Morse, Sr., and the mother of George Morse is interred at the large Evergreen Cemetery in Gulfport. The author is unable to find the location of the grave of Stanford Morse, Jr.; he is not listed in either the Live Oak or Evergreen cemeteries. Perhaps he was cremated.〕 Stanford Morse, Jr., married Sally Anne Reilly (born 1927). Their younger son, Joseph Reilly Morse (born c. 1957), is a former municipal judge in Gulfport and a public interest attorney in Biloxi with the Mississippi Center for Justice.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reilly Morse )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reilly Morse: "A Call for Accountable Development at HCDC" )〕Their older son is Stanford, III (born 1954), who has worked for Coastal Images USA.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stanford E. Morse )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanford Morse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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