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.
- Occupation
- botanist, politician, governor
- Position held
- United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 22, 1832
