Lewis R. Morris

Lewis Richard Morris ( born November 2, 1760 Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York, † December 29, 1825 in Springfield, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1797 and 1803 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lewis R. Morris was a nephew of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), who represented 1800-1803 the State of New York in the U.S. Senate. Another uncle was Lewis Morris (1726-1798), who was in New York in the Continental Congress.

The younger Lewis Morris attended the public schools of his home and then moved to Springfield in Vermont. Between 1781 and 1783, ie before the accession of that State to the United States, he was constantly in the state of Vermont for foreign policy issues. In 1785 he was on the city council of Springfield and from 1786 to 1787 he was a tax commissioner of Vermont. Thereafter, he served from 1789 to 1796 as a clerk at the District Court in Windsor County. Subsequently, he was until 1801 a judge at the same court, which suggests an earlier study of law. In the meantime, he worked in the years 1790 and 1791 as Protokollist in the House of Representatives from Vermont. After the accession of Vermont to the Union, Morris was appointed by President George Washington the first U.S. Marshal for Vermont on March 4, 1791. This office he held until in 1794.

Morris was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. He was a member of the Assembly, which ratified the Constitution of the United States of Vermont, as well as secretary to a 1793 meeting held on the revision of the Constitution of Vermont. Morris belonged until 1817 and the militia of Vermont, where he rose to become major general. Between 1795 and 1797 he was a member of the House of Representatives of his State.

As of 1796 elected MP Daniel Buck not took up his seat in Congress, it was in Vermont to elections, won Morris. He was on May 22, 1797 its headquarters occupy in the U.S. House of Representatives. After he was confirmed in each case in his office at the regular congressional elections of 1798 and 1800, Morris was able to remain until March 3, 1803 Congress. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was 1803-1808 again deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont, where he served as president. Then he withdrew into retirement. Lewis Morris died in December 1825 in Springfield, and was buried in Charlestown (New Hampshire).