Bio

• Born in Dale, Texas. Received B.S. cum laude from Huston-Tillotson College in 1956. Married James Homer Morton May 29, 1965. They have two children. Teacher at State School for Delinquent girls in Texas 1956 to 1957. Employed as administrative assistant for Texas State AFL-CIO 1958 to 1961. Served as administrative assistant for presidential committees 1961 to 1966. She was a complaint investigator for the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 1966 to 1968. Director of social services for the Model Cities Program in Wichita, Kansas, 1968 to 1971.

  Morton was active in Democratic Party politics. She was a special assistant to the chairman of the Democratic National Committee 1971 to 1977. She served as deputy convention manager at the Democratic National Convention of 1976.

  Appointed Treasurer of the United States and served September 12, 1977, to January 20, 1981. Her signature appears on Federal Reserve Notes, series of 1977 and 1977-A. Appointed as state commissioner of labor and industry in Virginia in 1982.

  She died in a hospital in Austin, Texas

  bio: WWA 80-81; WWAmPol 79; WWAW 81 profile: NUM 90 Jul 1977 page 1413 obit: CW 1/12/2004, NN 12/30/03

Geburtsdatum

• 1936-02-01

Geburtsort

• Dale, Texas

Sterbedatum

• 2003-12-07

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