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Best known as War Governor of Indiana during the Civil War, he was also the first Indiana-born man to become governor. His full name was Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton, and he was born in Salisbury, orphaned at an early age, and raised by his grandparents and aunts.

He attended school in the Wayne County Seminary. After apprenticing for four years as a hatter with his elder brother, he attended Miami University in nearby Oxford, Ohio where he distinguished himself as an excellent debater.

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He did not graduate, but learned enough to know that he wanted to become a lawyer and began studying law in the office of John S. Newman in Centerville. He was a very successful lawyer, and five years after he was admitted to the bar, the governor appointed him a Circuit Judge.

Morton was a Democrat as a young man, but disliked the influence of the Southern states in that party. In 1856, Wayne County selected him to attend the first convention of the new Republican party in Pittsburgh. Later th