John Torrey Morse

John Torrey Morse Jr. (January 9, 1840–March 28, 1937) was an American historian, attorney, and politician. Biography John Torrey Morse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 9, 1840, to John Torrey Morse Sr. and Lucy Cabot Jackson. He graduated from Harvard College in 1860 after three years of study and read law in the office of John Lowell. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1874, he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the 6th Suffolk district in Boston's Back Bay. He served a one-year term.