Morrill, Edmund N
legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1834, in Westbrook, Maine. In 1856 he was elected a member of the school board of Westbrook. In 1857 he moved to Brown county, Kan.; and in October of that year was elected a representative in the first free state legislature elected in that territory. In 1858 he was elected a representative in the legislature under the Lecompton constitution; and in 1872 was elected a state senator, and was reelected in 1876. He was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth, and fifty-first congresses as a republican.