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==Background==

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Morton was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] in Jefferson County and the largest city in [[Alabama]], to Lindley C. Morton of [[California]] and the former Ruth Goddard,<ref>Google Books [https://books.google.com/books?id=uHqVYTkA08YC&pg=PA201]</ref> a native of [[Connecticut]]. Lindley and Ruth moved to Alabama because of his job with Portland Cement Company. The Mortons returned to California and reared their family of three sons and a daughter. Morton's brothers were Robert Morton and Coleman Morton (1919-2006), both of Pasadena, California; his surviving sister is Sylvia Morton Kingsley of [[San Francisco]].<ref name=statement>Statement of Katharine Allen Morton, September 24, 2008.</ref>

Morton was born in [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] in Jefferson County and the largest city in [[Alabama]], to Lindley C. Morton of [[California]] and the former Ruth Goddard,<ref namegooglebooks>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uHqVYTkA08YC&pg=PA201#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994|author=Nancy Weatherly Sharp James Roger Sharp, Charles F. Ritter, and Jon L. Wakelyn|publisher=Greenwood Press of Westport, [[Connecticut]], through Google Books|page=201-202|date=1997|accessdate=November 5, 2019}}</ref> a native of [[Connecticut]]. Lindley and Ruth moved to Alabama because of his job with Portland Cement Company. The Mortons returned to California and reared their family of three sons and a daughter. Morton's brothers were Robert Morton and Coleman Morton (1919-2006), both of Pasadena, California; his surviving sister is Sylvia Morton Kingsley of [[San Francisco]].<ref name=statement>Statement of Katharine Allen Morton, September 24, 2008.</ref>

Morton graduated from the Hotchkiss School, a boarding school for boys, since coeducational, located in Lakeville in Litchfield County, [[Connecticut]]. He then attended [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], from which he graduated in the field of engineering in 1945. Thereafter, from 1945 to 1947, he was an ensign in the [[United States Navy]], having been commissioned through [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]]. In 1948, he married the former Katharine Hancock "Kathy" Allen (born 1926), the daughter of Robert Gray Allen, a former Democratic [[U.S. Representative]] from Greensburg in western [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=obit>Warren A. Morton obituary, ''Casper Star-Tribune,'' February 22, 2002.</ref>

Morton graduated from the Hotchkiss School, a boarding school for boys, since coeducational, located in Lakeville in Litchfield County, [[Connecticut]]. He then attended [[Yale University]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], from which he graduated in the field of engineering in 1945. Thereafter, from 1945 to 1947, he was an ensign in the [[United States Navy]], having been commissioned through [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]]. In 1948, he married the former Katharine Hancock "Kathy" Allen (born 1926), the daughter of Robert Gray Allen, a former Democratic [[U.S. Representative]] from Greensburg in western [[Pennsylvania]].<ref name=obit>Warren A. Morton obituary, ''Casper Star-Tribune,'' February 22, 2002.</ref>