Robert P. Morris

Robert Page Walter Morris ( * June 30, 1853 in Lynchburg, Virginia; † December 16, 1924 in Rochester, Minnesota ) was an American politician. Between 1897 and 1903 he represented the state of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Morris first attended a private school and then the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. Until 1872 he studied at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington. After that, he taught mathematics at the various training colleges in Virginia and Texas, where he had moved in the meantime. Upon his return to Virginia, he studied law. After his made ​​in 1880 admitted to the bar he began in Lynchburg to work in his new profession.

Politically, Morris became a member of the Republican Party. In 1884 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress. In 1886 Morris to Duluth in Minnesota. There he was in 1889 urban judges. In 1894 he became a lawyer of his new hometown. Between 1895 and 1896 he was a judge in the Eleventh Judicial District of Minnesota.

In the congressional elections of 1896 Morris was in the sixth constituency of Minnesota in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles A. Towne on March 4, 1897. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1903 three legislative periods. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898.

In 1902, Morris opted not to run again. Between 1903 and 1923 he was a federal judge for Minnesota. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Pasadena ( California). Robert Morris died on 16 December 1924 in Rochester and was buried in Duluth.