<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Smith_Morrill" class="extiw" title="en:Justin Smith Morrill">Justin Smith Morrill</a> (April 14, 1810 – December 28, 1898) was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" class="extiw" title="en:United States House of Representatives">Representative</a> (1855–1867) and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" class="extiw" title="en:United States Senate">Senator</a> (1867–1898) from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont" class="extiw" title="en:Vermont">Vermont</a>, most widely remembered today for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Land-Grant_Colleges_Act" class="extiw" title="en:Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act">Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act</a> that established federal funding for many of the nation's colleges and universities. (This summary was created using Commons SumItUp)<br>Library of Congress description: "Hon. J. S. Morrill"
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mathew_Brady" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mathew Brady"><span title="American photographer (circa 1823–1896)">Mathew Benjamin Brady</span></a>
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection.  <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.01802">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.01802</a>. CALL NUMBER:  LC-BH82- 4787 A &lt;P&amp;P&gt;[P&amp;P]