Joseph W. Morris

Joseph Watkins Morris ( born February 26, 1879 in Sulphur, Henry County, Kentucky, † December 21, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1889, Joseph Morris moved with his father to New Castle, where he attended the public schools. In 1899, he graduated from New Castle High School. He then worked in retail. Politically, Morris was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1909 and 1923 he worked on the staff of Congressman J. Campbell Cantrill. Since 1904 he was a permanent delegate to the regional party days of the Democrats in Kentucky. In 1923 he was chairman of the Democratic campaign committee in his home state.

After the death of J. Campbell Cantrill Morris was a candidate in the election due for the seventh seat of Kentucky as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 30 November 1923. Since he resigned at the regular congressional elections of 1924 on a bid again, he could only finish the opened term of his predecessor until March 3, 1925. Between 1925 and 1927, Morris worked for the tax authorities of his home state. Then he ran until his death on December 21, 1937 a bus station in Louisville. Joseph Morris was buried in Carrollton.