DeLesseps Story Morrison


deLesseps Story Chep Morrison, Sr., was an attorney and politician, the mayor of New Orleans from 1946 to 1961. He also served as an appointee of U.S. President John F. Kennedy as the United States ambassador to the Organization of American States between 1961 and 1963.

Morrison was born to Jacob Haight Morrison, III , a district attorney in Pointe Coupee Parish, and his wife, Anita , a New Orleans socialite, in New Roads, the seat of Pointe Coupee Parish. The boy was named after deLesseps Story, a respected New Orleans judge to whom he was related on his mothers side the family was related to Ferdinand de Lesseps and Sidney Story, an alderman for whom the area of Storyville was named. He was the halfbrother of Jacob Haight Morrison.

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