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Copied from Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001015
MORTON, Jackson, (brother of Jeremiah Morton), a Senator from Florida; born near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., August 10, 1794; attended the common schools and graduated from Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1814, and from William and Mary College, Williamsburg, Va., in 1815; moved to Pensacola, Fla., in 1820 and engaged in the lumber business; member, Florida legislative council 1836-1837, serving as president in 1837; delegate to the constitutional convention of Florida in 1838; Navy agent at Pensacola 1841-1845; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1855; was not a candidate for reelection; again engaged in the lumber business; deputy to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States in Montgomery, Ala., in 1861; member of the Confederate congress 1862-1865; died at his country home, “Mortonia,” near Milton, Santa Rosa County, Fla., November 20, 1874; interment in the private cemetery at “Mortonia.”
Bibliography
Rucker, Brian R. Jackson Morton: West Florida’s Soldier, Senator, and Secessionist. Milton, FL: Patagonia Press, 1990.
Morton, Jackson (1794-1874) — also known as Billy Morton — of Escambia County, Fla. Born near Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania County, Va., August 10, 1794. Brother of Jeremiah Morton. Delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Escambia County, 1838-39; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1849-55; Representative from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1861-62. Died near Milton, Santa Rosa County, Fla., November 20, 1874. Interment at a private or family graveyard, Santa Rosa County, Fla.
Genealogy of members, Sons of Revolution in the state of Virginia
Author: Torrence, Clayton, 1884-1953; Stewart, Robert Armistead, 1877-
Location: Allen County Public Library; http://www.acpl.lib.in.us/
Subject: Virginia - Genealogy; Sons of the Revolution in the state of Virginia -- Directories; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783;
Description: Compiled local and family histories from Allen County Public Library.
Source: FamilySearch
Page 164, 165
Jeremiah Morton, of Orange County, Virginia, married Mildred Garnett Jackson and had issue:
Honorable Jackson Morton (1799-1878), of Virginia and Florida, president of the Territorial Council of Florida; General of volunteer militia; member United States Senate; member Florida State Convention of 1861; member Congress Confederate States of America; married Elizabeth Archer, and had issue: William Chase Morton. . .
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001015. - Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States. Historic Court Records
Record ID 257-19.
- Torrence, Clayton; Sons of the Revolution in state of Virginia; and Robert Armistead Stewart. Genealogy of members, Sons of Revolution in the state of Virginia. (Richmond [Virginia]: Mitchell and Hotchkiss, 1939)
pgs 164, 165.
"married Elizabeth Archer, and had issue: William Chase Morton. . ."
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