President Grover Cleveland appointed Morton U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in 1893. He served in Washington D.C. until he returned for Nebraska City four years later. In “retirement” he started a new newspaper called the Conservative and wrote a history of Nebraska.

Morton died in 1902 at his son’s home in Illinois. J. Sterling Morton was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1975-76.

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