Frank Morey

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Frank Morey (July 11, 1840 – September 22, 1890) was a U.S. Representative from Louisiana.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Morey attended the public schools. He moved to Illinois in 1857. He studied law. He entered the Union Army in 1861 in the Thirty-third Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the Civil War. He settled in Louisiana in 1866 and engaged in cotton planting and the insurance business. He served as member of the State house of representatives in 1868 and 1869. He was appointed a commissioner to revise the statutes and codes of the State. He served as commissioner to the Vienna Exposition in 1873.

Morey was elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and Forty-third Congresses. Presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-fourth Congress and served from March 4, 1869, to June 8, 1876, when he was succeeded by William B. Spencer, who contested the election. He moved to Washington, D.C., and died there September 22, 1890. He was interred in the Congressional Cemetery.

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• Frank Morey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-02-14