Joseph L. Morphis

Joseph L. Morphis

Joseph Lewis Morphis (born April 17, 1831 in Pocahontas , McNairy County , Tennessee , † July 29, 1913 in Cleveland , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1870 and 1873 he represented the second constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Morphis attended elementary school in his homeland and then worked as a planter in Tennessee. During the Civil War he was a captain in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865 . Already during the war he had moved his residence to Pontotoc in Mississippi. After the war, Morphis became a member of the Republican Party . In 1865, he was a delegate to the Mississippi Constitution Revision Convention. Joseph Morphis served on the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1866 to 1868 .

After the state of Mississippi was re-admitted to the Union, Morphis was elected to the US House of Representatives. In Washington, DC , he took the seat on February 23, 1870, which Reuben Davis had given up nine years earlier. After re-election in the regular congressional elections of 1870, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1873. For the elections of 1872 he was no longer nominated by his party. In 1877 he was named US Marshal for Northern Mississippi by President Rutherford B. Hayes . He held this office until 1885. Between 1890 and 1901 he was active in trading with the Indians in the Osagereservation . After that, he retired.

Web links

• Joseph L. Morphis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph L. Morphis in the database of Find a Grave (English)