Isaac Edward Morse

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Isaac Edward Morse (May 22, 1809 - February 11, 1866) was a United States Congressman from Louisiana. He was born in Attakapas, Louisiana.

He attended school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, and the Norwich Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont. He graduated from Harvard University in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Martinville, Louisiana, from 1835 to 1842. In 1842, he was elected to the Louisiana State Senate, serving there through 1844. He was then elected to the United States Congress to fill the vacancy created by the death of Peter E. Bossier. He was reelected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses and served from December 2, 1844, to March 3, 1851. He was the chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims during the Thirty-first Congress. In 1850, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. He also served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1848.

In 1853, he became the attorney general of Louisiana, serving in that capacity through 1855. He was a ppointed by President Franklin Pierce on December 2, 1856, as one of two special commissioners to New Granada to negotiate concerning the transit of citizens, officers, soldiers, and seamen of the United States across the Isthmus of Panama. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 11, 1866. He is buried in Washington Cemetery.