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Julius Sterling Morton

Julius Sterling Morton
Julius Sterling Morton, American journalist and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 1902)

Julius Sterling Morton was a Nebraska newspaper editor and politician who served as President Grover Cleveland's secretary of agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat, taking a conservative position on political, economic, and social issues, and opposing agrarianism. Among his most notable achievements was the founding of Arbor Day in 1872. In 1897 he started a weekly magazine entitled The Conservative.

22 April 1832

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