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About Julius Sterling Morton
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.
Everything about Julius Sterling Morton →- Occupation
- botanist, politician, governor
- Position held
- United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 22, 1832
- Died
- April 27, 1902