Justin Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill was born on April 14, 1810 in Strafford, Vermont. He worked as a merchant’s clerk and then ran several stores with a partner, and his investments in banks, railroads and real estate made him wealthy enough to retire to a farm by the late 1840s. He was elected to Congress in 1854 as a Whig and became a founder of the Republican Party after the Whigs collapsed. He served in the House from 1855 to 1867 and in the Senate from 1867 until his death on December 28, 1898, almost 31 years later.
Morrill is best remembered for the Morrill Land-Grant Acts. The first was signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 and provided federal funding for at least one college in every state. A second act in 1890 targeted the former Confederate states and led to the creation of several historically black colleges and universities. Together they led to the founding of 106 colleges. He also sponsored the Morrill Tariff of 1861, which was a protective tariff, and a law in 1864 that created the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol.
At the time of his death, his 43 years and 299 days of continuous service in Congress was the longest in U.S. history. His home in Strafford is now a National Historic Landmark. In 1962, a 4-cent stamp was issued for the centennial of the Land-Grant College Act, and in 1999 he appeared on a 55-cent Great Americans series stamp that honored his role in establishing the land grant colleges.
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I have none of these stamps. What’s worse is if I had them all this would still be a boring album page with several deviations of the same stamp image. The only interesting stamp is the one of Justin Morrill.
Contains 10 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
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3283 |
33¢ (mar 1999) |
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3278 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3278F |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3282 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3279 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3281 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3277 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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3353 |
22¢ (oct 1999) |
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3280 |
33¢ (feb 1999) |
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2941 |
55¢ (jul 1999) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.
