Isaac Edward Morse (May 22, 1809 – February 11, 1866) was an attorney and slaveholder who served asUnited States Congressman fromLouisiana andAttorney General of Louisiana.^[1] He was born inAttakapas, Louisiana.

Morse attended school inElizabethtown, New Jersey, and the Norwich Military Academy inNorwich, Vermont. He graduated fromHarvard University in 1829. He studied law and was admitted to the bar and practiced inNew Orleans, Louisiana, andSt. Martinville, Louisiana, from 1835 to 1842. In 1842, he was elected to theLouisiana State Senate, serving through 1844. He was then elected to the United States Congress as aDemocrat to fill the vacancy created by the death ofPeter E. Bossier. He was reelected to the Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth, and Thirty-first Congresses and served from December 2, 1844, to March 3, 1851. He was the chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims during the Thirty-first Congress. He also served as a delegate to the1848 Democratic National Convention. In 1850, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, defeated by John Moore (Whig).

In 1854, he became theattorney general of Louisiana, serving in that capacity through 1856. He was appointed by PresidentFranklin Pierce on December 2, 1856, as one of two special commissioners toNew Granada to negotiate concerning the transit of citizens, officers, soldiers, and seamen of the United States across the Isthmus of Panama. He died in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 11, 1866. He is buried in Washington Cemetery.

• United States Congress."Isaac E. Morse (id: M001011)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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