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Senate Years of Service: 1957-1968 Party: Republican
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MORTON, Thruston Ballard, (brother of Rogers C.B. Morton),
a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Louisville,
Jefferson County, Ky., August 19, 1907; attended the public schools and
Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Va.; graduated from Yale University in 1929;
engaged in the grain and milling business; during the Second World War served
as a lieutenant commander in the United States Naval Reserve 1941-1946;
director of the Louisville Board of Trade, Louisville Goodwill Industries,
Frontier Nursing Service, and Lincoln Institute; also interested in banking;
elected as a Republican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second
Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); was not a candidate for
renomination in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress; was appointed Assistant
Secretary of State for Congressional Relations by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower 1953-1956; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in
1956; reelected in 1962 and served from January 3, 1957, until his resignation
on December 16, 1968; was not a candidate for reelection in 1968; chairman,
Republican National Committee 1959-1961; vice chairman of the board and
director, Liberty National Bank, Louisville, Ky.; chairman of the board and
director, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Ky.; president, American Horse Council;
resided in Louisville, Ky. until his death there on August 14, 1982; interment
at Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Smiley, Sara. The
Political Career of Thruston S. Morton: The Senate Years, 1956-1968. Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1975.
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