Edward Joy Morris

Edward Joy Morris ( * July 16, 1815 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † December 31, 1881 ) was an American politician and diplomat. Between 1843 and 1845, and again from 1857 to 1861, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Morris attended the common schools and then studied at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. This was followed up in 1836 to study at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1842 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. Between 1841 and 1843 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Morris was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Charles Brown on March 4, 1843. Since he has not been confirmed in 1844, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1845. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

Between 1850 and 1853 Edward Morris served as an American envoy in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, based in Naples. After that, he was a board member of the Girard College in Philadelphia. In 1856 he was again elected to the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. After the dissolution of the Whigs Morris was a member of the Republican Party. In the elections of 1856 he was elected to Congress again in the second district of his state, as a replacement for 1857 Job Roberts Tyson on March 4. After two re- elections he could remain until his resignation on June 8, 1861 in Congress. This time was determined to April 1861 by the events leading up to the Civil War and after the war itself.

Between June 1861 and October 1870 Edward Morris as an American Envoy (Minister Resident ) in the Ottoman Empire worked. He died on December 31, 1881 in Philadelphia.