page_title: Justin Smith Morrill
section_title: Personal
hierarchical_section_title: Justin Smith Morrill / Personal
caption_attribution_description: English: Mausoleum of Senator Justin Smith Morrill in Strafford, Vermont.
context_page_description: Justin Smith Morrill was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Acts that established federal funding for establishing many of the United States' public colleges and universities. He was one of the founders of the Republican Party.
context_section_description: In 1851, Morrill married Ruth Barrell Swan (1822–1898) of Easton, Massachusetts.  They had two children.  Justin Harris Morrill (1853–1855) died in childhood.  James Swan Morrill (1857–1910) graduated from the University of Vermont in 1880 and Columbian College Law School in 1882.  He was a lawyer and farmer and served in a variety of offices including as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. He wrote Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons, published in 1886.
  Morrill died in Washington, D.C. on December 28, 1898.  He was buried at Strafford Cemetery.
  At the time of Morrill's death his 43 years and 299 days of continuous Congressional service was the longest in U.S. history.  He has since been surpassed, but still ranks 18th as of March 2014.
caption: Mausoleum of Senator Justin Smith Morrill in Strafford, Vermont
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