Samuel Eliot Morison

Samuel Eliot Morison‘s source of wealth comes from being a historian. How much money is Samuel Eliot Morison worth at the age of 137 and what’s his real net worth now?

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Samuel Eliot Morison (born July 9, 1887) is famous for being historian. He currently resides in Massachusetts. A respected American war historian, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus . His other popular works include Oxford History of the American People (1965) and The Growth of the American Republic (1930).

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Samuel Eliot Morison was born in Massachusetts on Saturday, July 9, 1887 (G.I. Generation generation). He is 137 years old and is a Cancer. Samuel Eliot Morison, Rear Admiral, United States Naval Reserve (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history that were both authoritative and highly readable. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor’s Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. He retired from the navy in 1951 as a rear admiral. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager. Over the course of his distinguished career, Morison received eleven honorary doctoral degrees, including degrees from Harvard University (1936), Columbia University (1942), Yale University (1949), and the University of Oxford (1951). Morison also garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and national awards from both foreign countries and the United States, including two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, the Balzan Prize, the Legion of Merit, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He received a second Pulitzer Prize for his 1959 work, John Paul Jones : A Sailor’s Biography.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1908. He later became a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. Samuel Eliot Morison attended Noble and Greenough School, École Libre des Sciences Politiques, Harvard University. Samuel Eliot Morison is a member of Richest Celebrities and Historians.