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{{Officeholder
{{Officeholder
|name=Levi Parsons “L. P.” Morton
|name=Levi Parsons “L. P.” Morton
|image=Levi morton.jpg
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|party=[[Republican]]
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Lucy Young Kimball (died 1871)<br>Anna Livingston Reade Street (died 1918)
|spouse=Lucy Young Kimball (died 1871)<br>Anna Livingston Reade Street (died 1918)
====Conkling machine, declining vice presidential nomination====
====Conkling machine, declining vice presidential nomination====
[[File:Levi morton.jpg|thumb|right]]
During the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 presidential election]], Morton served as a lieutenant to Sen. Conkling and his machine, which supported a third non-consecutive term for former Radical Republican president [[Ulysses S. Grant]] over the nomination of [[Half-Breed]] Sen. [[James G. Blaine]].<ref name=ussenatebio/> The Half-Breeds ultimately successfully pushed for the dark-house candidate James Garfield for the party nomination.
During the [[United States presidential election, 1880|1880 presidential election]], Morton served as a lieutenant to Sen. Conkling and his machine, which supported a third non-consecutive term for former Radical Republican president [[Ulysses S. Grant]] over the nomination of [[Half-Breed]] Sen. [[James G. Blaine]].<ref name=ussenatebio/> The Half-Breeds ultimately successfully pushed for the dark-house candidate James Garfield for the party nomination.