About This Stamp
Justin Smith Morrill served Vermont in the US House of Representatives from 1855 to 1867 and in the US Senate from 1867 until his death in 1898. In the House, he served on the Ways and Means Committee and was chairman from 1865 to 1867. In the Senate, he served on the Finance Committee, eventually becoming chairman. He is widely remembered for sponsoring the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 to establish land-grant colleges. He was instrumental in developing legislation to create and construct the Library of Congress and to complete the Washington Monument.
Stamp Artist
Burt Silverman
Stamp Designer
Howard E. Paine
A member of the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee before being named an art director in 1981, Howard E. Paine supervised the design of more than 400 U.S. postage stamps. After three decades as an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, he retired in 2011.
For more than 30 years Paine was an art director for the National Geographic Society, where he redesigned National Geographic magazine, developed the children’s magazine, National Geographic World, and designed Explorers Hall. A popular lecturer, he has spoken at Yale University and New York University, among others, and presented programs for the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution. A judge for numerous art shows and design competitions, Paine also taught magazine design at The George Washington University.
Paine had been a stamp collector since childhood. In 2000, he designed the catalog for Pushing The Envelope: The Art of the Postage Stamp, an exhibit of original stamp art at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Howard Paine died on September 13, 2014.