Mathias Morris

Mathias Morris ( born September 12, 1787 Hilltown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † November 9, 1839 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mathias Morris attended the public schools in Newtown and Doylestown. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Newtown in this profession. In 1819, he was Deputy Attorney General. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and then founded in the 1830s Whig party. Between 1828 and 1833 he was a member of the Senate of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1834, Morris was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Ramsey on March 4, 1835. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1839 two legislative sessions. Since 1837 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1838 he was not re-elected. Mathias Morris died on November 9, 1839 in Doylestown.