The man who presided over the Maine Senate at the beginning of the Great Depression was born in Phillips, Maine in 1885.
After graduating from Phillips High School in 1903, J. Blaine Morrison studied law in the office of Judge James Morrison, his father, and Frank W. Butler, Esquire, of Farmington.
A Selectman in his town for six years and County Attorney for Franklin County for the same length of time, Morrison was elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 1923. He was elected to the Maine State Senate for two terms beginning in 1925 and reelected in 1928 to a third term during which he served as the Senate’s presiding officer.