Rogers Morton

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Rogers Morton
39th United States Secretary of the Interior
In office January 29, 1971 – April 30, 1975
President	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Walter Joseph Hickel
Succeeded by	Stanley K. Hathaway
22nd United States Secretary of Commerce
In office May 1, 1975 – February 2, 1976
President	Gerald Ford
Preceded by	Frederick B. Dent
Succeeded by	Elliot Richardson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 1st district
In office January 3, 1963 – January 29, 1971
Preceded by	Thomas F. Johnson
Succeeded by	William Oswald Mills
Born	September 19, 1914(1914-09-19) Louisville, Kentucky
Died	April 19, 1979 (aged 64) Easton, Maryland
Political party	Republican
Religion	Episcopalian

Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (September 19, 1914 – April 19, 1979) was a U.S. Republican political figure.

Morton was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from Yale University in 1937 where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Wolf's Head Society. During World War II, Morton served in the United States Army reaching the rank of captain. He was elected to the U.S. Congress, serving the 1st Congressional district of Maryland from 1963 - 1971, and was a Vice Presidential hopeful at the 1968 Republican National Convention. Morton was the chairman of the Republican National Committee between 1969 and 1971. He was the Secretary of the Interior between 1971 and 1975. As Secretary of the Interior, he was involved in several landmark Supreme Court Indian law cases, including Morton v. Mancari (1974). He is the most recent Interior Secretary to come from a state east of the Mississippi River. Finally, he was the Secretary of Commerce in 1975. He died in Easton, Maryland, in 1979.

His brother, Thruston B. Morton, was also chairman of the Republican National Committee and served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

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• Rogers Morton at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved on 2008-01-26

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v • d • e Cabinet of President Gerald Ford (1974-1977) Vice President Vacant (1974), Nelson Rockefeller (1974-1977) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (1974–1977) Secretary of the Treasury William E. Simon (1974–1977) Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger (1974–1975) • Donald Rumsfeld (1975–1977) Attorney General William Saxbe (1974-1975) • Edward Levi (1975-1977) Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton (1974–1975) • Stanley K. Hathaway (1975) • Thomas S. Kleppe (1975-1977) Secretary of the Agriculture Earl Butz (1974–1976) • John Albert Knebel (1976-1977) Secretary of Commerce Frederick B. Dent (1974–1975) • Rogers Morton (1975) • Elliot Richardson (1975-1977) Secretary of Labor Peter J. Brennan (1974–1975) • John Thomas Dunlop (1975–1976) • William Usery, Jr. (1976-1977) Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger (1974-1975) • F. David Mathews (1975-1977) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development James Thomas Lynn (1974-1975) • Carla Anderson Hills (1975–1977) Secretary of Transportation Claude Brinegar (1974–1975) • William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr. (1975–1977)

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