Isaac N. Morris

Isaac N. Morris (1859)

Isaac Newton Morris (born January 22, 1812 in Bethel , Clermont County , Ohio , †  October 29, 1879 in Quincy , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Isaac Morris came from a well-known family of politicians. His father was US Senator Thomas Morris (1776-1844); his older brother Jonathan (1804-1875) was a congressman for the state of Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1835, he began to work in this profession in Warsaw (Illinois). In 1838 he moved his office and residence to Quincy, Adams County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1840 he was appointed Secretary of State of the state government of Illinois, which he refused. In 1841 he became president of the Illinois & Michigan Canal Co. instead . Between 1846 and 1848 he was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives .

In the congressional election of 1856 , Morris was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Jacob C. Davis on March 4, 1857 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1861 . These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the civil war . In 1860 he declined to run again.

In 1869, Isaac Morris was appointed federal commissioner for the Union Pacific Railroad by the new US President Ulysses S. Grant . He died in Quincy on October 29, 1879.

Web links

• Isaac N. Morris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Isaac N. Morris in the database of Find a Grave (English)