Anson Morrill
Anson Peaslee Morrill was an American politician.Biography
Born in 1803 in Belgrade, originally a storekeeper and millkeeper, he was the 24th Governor of Maine from 1855 to 1856, represented Maine's fourth district in the United States House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863 and served in the Maine House of Representatives. He represented the Maine Law and Know Nothing parties when elected governor in 1854 and as a Republican in the 1855 election for governor. Morrill also served as sheriff of Somerset County, Maine. He was older brother to Lot M. Morrill, a U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Ulysses S. Grant.
After his term as governor, Morrill served as president of the Maine Central Railroad 1864-1866 and again 1873–1875. Following his second term as the railroad's president, he served as vice president for the railroad until his death in 1887.
Governor Morrill died in 1887 in Augusta, Maine and is buried at the Forest Grove Cemetery in Augusta.
