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Samuel F. B. Morse

Inventor of the electric telegraph and Morse code.

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American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

Born 1791
Died 1872

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We need a photo of Samuel F. B. Morse

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

Born 1791
Died 1872

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Catholic Church Telegraph Art Controversial literature Exhibitions American Art Emigration and immigration National Academy of Design (U.S.) National Academy of Design (U.S.) (1828-1997) Naturalization Politics and government Slavery Study and teaching American Academy of the Fine Arts American Party Anti-Catholicism Art schools Church and state Correspondence History Nativism Abolitionists American Portrait painting Architecture Biography

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United States Great Britain New York New York (State) Description and travel Europe France Italy

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) Joseph Henry (1797-1878) Alfred Vail (1807-1859) Amos Kendall (1789-1869) Benjamin West (1738-1820) Charles Bird King (1785-1862) Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) Cyrus W. Field (1819-1892) DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) Ezra Cornell (1807-1874) Francis O. J. Smith (1806-1876) Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) Horatio Greenough (1805-1852) J. G. Chapman (1808-1889) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) John S. Cogdell (1778-1847) Joseph Henry (1799-1878) Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851) Lucretia Pickering Walker Morse (d. 1825) Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier Lafayette marquis de (1757-1834) Richard Rush (1780-1859) Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872 Morse

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1815-1861 1857-1861 1861-1865 1863 19th century War of 1812

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  • Samuel F. B. Morse
  • Samuel Finley Breese Morse
  • Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
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