- F. Bradford Morse
Frank Bradford Morse (1921-1994) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives fromMassachusetts .Morse was born in
Lowell, Massachusetts onAugust 7 ,1921 and graduated fromBoston University in 1948 and fromBoston University School of Law in 1949. He served inWorld War II in the Army from 1942-1946. After the war, he served as a private practice lawyer, business executive, law clerk to Chief Justice of theSupreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts , and professor at Boston University School of Law, 1949-1953. He was elected to theLowell City Council in 1952 and served there until 1953 when was employed as a staff member for United States Senate Armed Services Committee, a position he held until 1955. From 1955 until 1958 he served as an executive secretary and chief assistant to United States SenatorLeverett Saltonstall , and later as a deputy administrator of Veterans Administration from 1958-1960. After the death ofEdith Nourse Rogers in September 1960, he was selected by the Republican Party to take her place on the ballot and was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress in November 1960. He was then re-elected to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3 ,1961 -May 1 ,1972 ) before becoming Under Secretary General for Political and General Assembly Affairs at theUnited Nations from 1972-1976. He was then promoted to be the third Administrator of the United Nations Development Program from 1976-1986. He died at his home inNaples, Florida onDecember 18 ,1994 , and was cremated and placed inArlington National Cemetery , Arlington, Va.References
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