Thomas Morris (politician, 1776)

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Thomas Morris

Thomas Morris (born January 3, 1776 in Berks County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  December 7, 1844 in Bethel , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Ohio in the US Senate .

Life

The family moved from Pennsylvania at an early age and settled in Clarksburg in what is now West Virginia , where the boy sporadically attended public schools. In 1793 he joined the Army Rangers and was used in battles against insurgent Indians . Two years later he moved to Columbia , Ohio, which later became part of Cincinnati , and worked there as an employee in a shop.

From 1800 he finally lived in Bethel, where he began to practice as a lawyer in 1804 after successfully studying law and being admitted to the bar. There he also embarked on a political career. As a representative of Clermont County he belonged between 1806 and 1821 a total of four times for two-year terms of office in the Ohio House of Representatives ; between 1813 and 1833 he served in the state Senate for five two-year terms. He was also a judge on the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1809 to 1810 .

On March 4, 1833, Morris, who was one of the partisans of US President Andrew Jackson , finally moved into the US Senate in Washington, DC . After six years, during which he was, among other things, chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills , he did not apply for re-election. He subsequently worked as a farmer and only briefly returned to politics when he was an unsuccessful candidate for the short-lived Liberty Party for the office of US Vice President in 1844 . He and presidential candidate James G. Birney did not get more than 2.3 percent of the vote.

Thomas Morris died that same year. His son Jonathan later became Congressman for Ohio, his younger brother Isaac sat for Illinois in the House of Representatives.

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SURNAME Morris, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Berks County , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1844
Place of death at Bethel , Ohio