Thomas Morris (politician, 1771)

Thomas Morris (born February 26, 1771 in Philadelphia , Province of Pennsylvania , † March 12, 1849 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1801 and 1803 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Morris, son of US Senator Robert Morris , was born in Philadelphia about two years before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War . Between 1781 and 1786 he went to a school in Geneva ( Switzerland ) and then between 1786 and 1788 to the University of Leipzig in the Electorate of Saxony . He then returned to Philadelphia. He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Canandaigua, New York. Between 1794 and 1796 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party . In the congressional elections of 1800 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded William Cooper on March 4, 1801 . Since he on a run again in 1802 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1803 Congress of.

He then resumed his practice in New York City. Morris was named a U.S. Marshal in New York's Southern District in 1816, 1820, 1825, and 1829 . He died on March 12, 1849 in New York City.

Web links

• Thomas Morris in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Thomas Morris on The Political Graveyard website