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Morrill, Lot Myrick

lawyer, legislator, United States senator, governor, was born May 3, 1813, in Belgrade, Maine.

He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1854; of the senate in 1856, and made its president. He was elected governor of Maine in 1858, and re-elected in 1859 and 1860. In 1861 he was elected a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He was also elected United States senator to succeed William P. Fessenden, for the term ending in 1877; and resigned in 1876 to accept the office of secretary of the treasury, in the cabinet of President Grant, serving until 1877. He was then appointed collector of the port of Portland, Maine. He died Jan. 10, 1883, in Augusta, Maine.