| Samuel Eliot Morison  Born: 9-Jul-1887
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Died: 15-May-1976
Location of death: Boston, MA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Forest Lawn Cemetery, Northeast Harbor, ME
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Military Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Rear Admiral and naval historian Professor at Harvard for forty years. Father: John H. Morison
Mother: Emily Marshal Eliot Morison
Wife: Elizabeth S. Green (d. 1945, four children)
Daughter: Emily Morison Beck (editor of Bartlett's Quotations)
Wife: Priscilla Barton (m. 1949)
High School: St. Paul's School, Concord, NH (1903)
University: BA, Harvard University (1908)
University: PhD, Harvard University (1912)
Professor: Harvard University
Legion of Merit
Emerson Thoreau Medal 1961
Balzan Prize 1962
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1964
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1943 for Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1960 for John Paul Jones
American Philosophical Society
Author of books:
The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765-1848 (1913, biography)
The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 (1921, history)
The Growth of the American Republic (1930, history)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus (1942, biography)
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (1947-62, history)
Christopher Columbus: Mariner (1955, biography)
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959, biography)
The Oxford History of the American People (1965, history)
The European Discovery of America (1971-74, history)
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