He had a brother, Rogers Clark Ballard Morton, who also became a politician, and a sister, Jane, who survived him.

Morton was re-elected to a second term in the U.S. Senate in 1962, defeating the Democratic lieutenant governor and former mayor of Louisville, Wilson W. Wyatt.

[10] A compromise that Morton proposed to guarantee jury trials in all criminal contempt cases except for voting rights proved, with the assistance of Sens.

Everett Dirksen from Illinois and Bourke Hickenlooper from Iowa, crucial in passing that Civil Rights Act.

Also, he was both depressed by the urban violence after the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and that of Robert F. Kennedy a few weeks later, and disappointed in his party's failure to address the broader social issues.

He also ultimately counseled then-President Lyndon Johnson to decline to seek re-election, and he supported the unsuccessful presidential candidacy of Gov.

[12] Morton was among the last two candidates considered by Richard Nixon as a vice presidential running mate in 1960.

His brother Rogers Morton had died three years previously, and his wife, Belle, survived him by more than a decade.