Isaac N. Morris

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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Isaac Morris came from a famous political family. His father was a U.S. 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 a subsequent law degree in 1835 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Warsaw ( Illinois) to work in this profession. In 1838 he moved his office and his residence to Quincy in Adams County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1840 he was appointed Secretary of State of the State Government of Illinois, but he refused. In 1841 he was president of the Illinois & Michigan instead Canal Co. Between 1846 and 1848 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois.

In the congressional elections of 1856 Morris was in the fifth electoral district of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob C. Davis on 4 March 1857. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1861 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events in the immediate run-up to the Civil War. In 1860 he opted not to run again.

1869 was appointed Federal Commissioner for the Union Pacific Railroad Isaac Morris by the new U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. He died on October 29, 1879 in Quincy.