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Samuel Eliot Morison biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Samuel Eliot Morison

Author Name:

Samuel Eliot Morison

Born As:

Samuel Eliot Morison

Other Names:

Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve.

Born:

9 Jul 1887

Died:

15 May 1976




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Historian and biographer                          
Selected Works:

Christopher Columbus, Mariner - 1955
The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765–1848 - 1913
The Oxford History of the United States - 1927
Builders of the Bay Colony: A Gallery of Our Intellectual Ancestors - 1930; 2nd ed., 1964

The Growth of the American Republic - with Henry Steele Commager, - 1930, as Oxford History of the United States; 7th ed., 1980. Revised and abridged edition with Samuel Eliot Morison and William E. Leuchtenberg. Published by Oxford University Press in 1980 as A Concise History of the American Republic, rev. 1983.

Three Centuries of Harvard: 1636–1936 - 1936
Admiral of the Ocean Sea.- 1942
History as a Literary Art: An Appeal to Young Historians - 1946
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II - 1947–1962
Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620–1647 - editor - 1952
John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography - 1959
The Story of Mount Desert Island - 1960
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War - 1963
The Oxford History of the American People - 1965
The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages - 1971
Samuel De Champlain: Father of New France - 1972
The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages - 1974
A Concise History of the American Republic - with Henry Steele Commager and William E. Leuchtenberg - 1976.                          
Mother Emily Marshall Eliot
Father John Holmes Morison
First wife Elizabeth Greene, died 1945, four children
Second wife Priscilla Shakelford.                          
Book Prizes: 

Pulitzer Prize in biography for Admiral of the Ocean Sea - 1943
Pulitzer Prize in biography for John Paul Jones - 1960
Bancroft Prize for The Rising Sun in the Pacific - 1949
Bancroft Prize for The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages - 1972.