Levi Morton

Levi Parsons Morton ( May 16 , 1824 – May 16 , 1920 ) was a Representative from New York and the 22nd Vice President Of The United States .

Morton was born in Shoreham , Addison County , Vermont . He was a clerk in a General Store in Enfield , Massachusetts , taught school in Boscawen , New Hampshire , engaged in mercantile pursuits in Hanover, New Hampshire , moved to Boston , entered the dry-goods business in New York City and engaged in banking there. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876 to the 45th Congress . He was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as honorary commissioner to the Paris Exhibition Of 1878 .

Morton was elected as a Republican to the 46th and 47th Congresses, serving from March 4 , 1879 , until his resignation, effective March 21 , 1881 . Presidential candidate James Garfield asked him to be his Vice Presidential candidate in 1880 , but Morton rejected the offer. He asked to be Minister to Britain or France instead. He was United States Minister to France from 1881 to 1885 , and elected Vice President of the United States on the Republican ticket with Benjamin Harrison , serving from March 4 , 1889 to March 3 , 1893 .

Levi Morton was Governor Of New York from 1895 to 1897 . Following his public career, he became a Real Estate investor. He died in Rhinebeck , Dutchess County , New York , on his 96th birthday. He is interred in the Rhinebeck Cemetery.

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