John Torrey Morse

JOHN TORREY MORSE JR. was an American historian and biographer who served as editor of the American Statesmen Series and co-editor of the International Review alongside Henry Cabot Lodge. His books included biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin, as well as legal works such as A Treatise on the Law of Banks and Banking and Famous Trials.

Morse was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1862 and wrote widely on public policy, economics, and social theory. He also produced biographies of Alexander Hamilton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and The Law of Arbitration and Award.

Morse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in 1937 at the age of ninety-six.

John Torrey Morse’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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