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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Samuel Eliot Morison
Born: July 9,1887
Died: May 15,1976
PROF. SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON
Awarded by
President Lyndon B. Johnson
September 14, 1964
Scholar and sailor, this amphibious historian has combined a life of action and literary craftsmanship to lead two generations of Americans on countless voyages of discovery.
Author of books:
The Growth of the American Republic (1930, nonfiction, with H. S. Commager)
Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942, biography of Christopher Columbus)
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (1947-62, 15 volumes)
John Paul Jones (1959, biography)
The Oxford History of the American People (1965, nonfiction)
The European Discovery of America (1971-4, nonfiction, two volumes)
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1943 for Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1960 for John Paul Jones
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