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LEVI PARSONS See also: American banker and politician, was See also: born at See also: Shoreham, See also: Vermont, on the 16th of May 1824.1 He was in business at See also: Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1843-1849 and in See also: Boston in 1849-1854
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He then became a partner in a New See also: York dry-goods See also: house
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He established in 1863 the banking house of L
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See also: Morton & See also: Company (dissolved 1899), with a See also: London branch which had See also: Sir See also: John
See also: Rose (182o-1888) as its See also: principal member
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The American See also: firm assisted in funding the See also: national See also: debt at the See also: time of the resumption of specie payments, and the London house were fiscal agents of the See also: United States See also: government in 1873-1884, and as such received the $15,500,000 awarded by the See also: Geneva Arbitration See also: Court in See also: settlement of the " See also: Alabama Claims " against See also: Great Britain
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In 1899 Morton became president of the Morton See also: Trust Company in New York City
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He was a Republican representative in Congress in 1879-1881, United States See also: minister to See also: France in 1881-1885, See also: vice-president of the United States during the See also: presidency of Benjamin See also: Harrison in 1889-1893, and in 1895-1896 was governor of New York, See also: signing as such the " Greater New York " See also: bill and the liquor-tax measure known as the " Raines See also: law." In 1896 he was a See also: candidate for the presidential nomination in the Republican national See also: convention
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