{{Short description|American politician (1831-1892)}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Leopold Morse | image = Leopold Morse, from the Boston Globe.png | office1 = Member of the<br />[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br /> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1877 | term_end1 = March 3, 1885 | predecessor1 = [[Josiah Gardner Abbott]] | successor1 = [[Edward D. Hayden]] | constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|4|4th district}} (1877–83)<br />{{ushr|MA|5|5th district}} (1883–85) | term_start2 = March 4, 1887 | term_end2 = March 3, 1889 | predecessor2 = [[Ambrose Ranney]] | successor2 = [[John F. Andrew]] | constituency2 = {{ushr|MA|3|3rd district}} | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|8|15}} | birth_place = [[Wachenheim]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]], [[German Confederation]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1892|12|15|1831|8|15}} | death_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], U.S. | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = Clothier<ref>{{Citation | first = Jacob Rader | last = Marcus | year = 1989 | title = United States Jewry, 1776-1985 | page = 53 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, MI | isbn=0-8143-2186-0 }}</ref> | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}

'''Leopold Morse''' (August 15, 1831 &ndash; December 15, 1892) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].

==Biography== Morse was born in [[Wachenheim]], [[Kingdom of Bavaria|Bavaria]], in the [[German Confederation]], the son of Charlotte (Mehlinger) and Jacob Morse. His family was Jewish.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CbQyAAAAMAAJ&dq=Charlotte+Mehlinger+Jacob+Morse&pg=PA157 | title=American Jewish Year Book | last1=Adler | first1=Cyrus | last2=Szold | first2=Henrietta | year=1904 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWswAQAAMAAJ&dq=Charlotte+Mehlinger+Jacob+Morse&pg=PA100 | title=Biographical: Massachusetts | last1=Reno | first1=Conrad | year=1901 }}</ref> He attended the common schools in Wachenheim. He immigrated to the United States in 1849 and resided for about a year in [[Sandwich, New Hampshire]].

He moved to [[Boston, Massachusetts]] and worked in a clothing store, which he later purchased and operated until his death.

About 1850 Morse opened a clothing store in [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{Citation | first = Jacob Rader | last = Marcus| year = 1989 | title = United States Jewry, 1776-1985 | page = 53 | publisher = Wayne State University Press | location = Detroit, MI | isbn=0-8143-2186-0 }}</ref>

Morse was a delegate to the [[Democratic National Convention]] in 1876 and 1880. He was an unsuccessful [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidate in [[U.S. House election, 1870|1870]] and [[U.S. House election, 1872|1872]] for election to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses. ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' later noted that "few men step, as he did, from private station, immediately upon the floor of Congress, and he [had] never gone before the people except as a candidate for membership in that body".<ref>"Hon. Leopold Morse Dead", ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' (December 16, 1892), p. 9.</ref> He was elected to the Forty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1885). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the [[US Department of the Navy|Department of the Navy]] (Forty-eighth Congress). He declined to accept a renomination in [[U.S. House election, 1884|1884]]. Morse was elected president of the [[Post Publishing Co.]] publisher of ''[[The Boston Post]]'', in that year. He returned to elected office as a Representative to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). He served as chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State|U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State]] for the Congress.

Morse was not a candidate for renomination in [[U.S. House election, 1888|1888]]. He resumed business activities, and died in Boston on December 15, 1892.

Morse was interred in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]].

Morse's brother was lawyer [[Godfrey Morse]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9pwYAAAAIAAJ |title=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia |publisher=The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc. |year=1942 |editor-last=Landman |editor-first=Isaac |editor-link=Isaac Landman |volume=7 |location=New York, N.Y. |pages=656 |language=en |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

[[File:Leopold Morse Building Store.png|left|thumb|Leopold Morse's Store in Boston, cir. 1886]]

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=4 | before=[[Josiah Gardner Abbott]] | after= [[Patrick A. Collins]] | years=March 4, 1877 - March 3, 1883 }} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=5 | before=[[Selwyn Z. Bowman]] | after= [[Edward D. Hayden]] | years=March 4, 1883 - March 3, 1885 }} {{US House succession box | state=Massachusetts | district=3 | before=[[Ambrose Ranney]] | after= [[John F. Andrew]] | years=March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889 }} {{s-end}}

==See also== *[[List of Jewish members of the United States Congress]]

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