Henry Lee Morey

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Henry Lee Morey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio
In office
March 4, 1881 – June 20, 1884
Preceded byJohn A. McMahon
Succeeded byJames E. Campbell
Constituency3rd district (1881-1883)
7th district (1883-1884)
In office
March 4, 1889 – March 3, 1891
Preceded byJames E. Campbell
Succeeded byWilliam E. Haynes
Constituency7th district
Personal details
Born(1841-04-08)April 8, 1841
75th Ohio Infantry

Henry Lee Morey (April 8, 1841 – December 29, 1902) was an officer in the

U.S. Congressman
after the war.

Early life and career

Henry L. Morey was born in

New Orleans, where he witnessed the workings of slavery. He abhorred what he saw and became a radical abolitionist. Returning to Ohio, William opened his home as part of the Underground Railroad
, and was well known as a friend of the black man.

Henry received his education in the local public schools and the Morning Sun Academy at the village of Rising Sun. He then entered Miami University at Oxford, Ohio.

Civil War

On the day after the fall of

20th Ohio Infantry, serving an enlistment of three months in West Virginia under General Robert C. Schenck
.

Morey then enlisted in the

Quincy A. Gillmore at the siege of Charleston. He was successively promoted corporal, sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain. Three of his brothers, Oliver P., Joseph W., and James E. Morey, also served in the Union Army
.

He took part in the engagement at

Fort Gregg and in the siege of Fort Sumter in South Carolina and engagements at Camp Baldwin and Battle of Gainesville
in Florida. He was mustered out in 1865. On April 25, 1865, he married Mary M. Campbell, the daughter of an Ohio state senator.

Postbellum career

Morey then undertook the study of law and was graduated from the Indianapolis Law School in 1867 and was admitted to the Ohio bar, commencing practice in Hamilton, Ohio, in partnership with one of his six brothers. His wife Mary died July 1, 1867, in Hamilton. On February 26, 1873, he was married to Ella R. Campbell, sister of his first wife.

Morey was elected as a

prosecuting attorney of Butler County, Ohio, in 1873, serving concurrently. In 1875, he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio Senate. H. L. Morey was a delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1876.

In 1880, he was elected as a Republican from

Fifty-first Congress
. However, back in the Third district the following term, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890.

After his last term in Congress, Morey resumed the practice of law in Hamilton. He was a

Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Royal Arcanum
. He died in 1902 and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery.

Henry L. Morey was a cousin of James Whitcomb, governor of Indiana (1843–1848) and United States Senator from Indiana (1849–1852).

See also

References

  • United States Congress. "Henry Lee Morey (id: M000943)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved on 2008-02-14
  • Taylor, William A. Ohio in Congress from 1803 to 1901. Columbus, Ohio: The XX Century Publishing Company, 1900.
  • History of the Republican Party in Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1898, 1579 pgs.
  • A History and Biographical Cyclopaedia of Butler County Ohio. Cincinnati, Ohio: Western Biographical Publishing Company, 1882.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
U.S. Representative from Ohio's District 3

1881–1883 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Peter Leedom
U.S. Representative from Ohio's District 7

1883–1884 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
U.S. Representative from Ohio's District 7

1889–1891 		Succeeded by
William Elisha Haynes
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