John Alexander Morrison (January 31, 1814 – July 25, 1904) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Formative years

John A. Morrison was born in Colerain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on January 31, 1814. He studied medicine and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1837, and commenced practice in Cochranville, Pennsylvania.

John Alexander Morrison

Morrison was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second Congress. He was subsequently appointed as inspector and appraiser of imports of drugs at the port of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1861. He then resumed his practice of medicine in Cochranville from 1861 to 1865.

John Alexander Morrison

Later years, death and interment

Morrison also engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and died in Cochranville in 1904. Interment in Fagg's Manor Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Londonderry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

John Alexander Morrison

Sources

The Political Graveyard

1814 births

1904 deaths

Physicians from Pennsylvania

American Presbyterians

Thomas Jefferson University alumni

Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians