Thomas Morris (New York politician)

Thomas Morris ( born February 26, 1771 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, † March 12, 1849 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1801 and 1803 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Morris, son of U.S. Senator Robert Morris, was born about two years before the outbreak of the American War of Independence in Philadelphia. He went 1781-1786 on a school in Geneva ( Switzerland ) and then 1786-1788 to the University of Leipzig in Saxony Electorate. He then returned to Philadelphia. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Canandaigua (New York). Between 1794 and 1796 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1800 he was in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Cooper on March 4, 1801. Since he gave up for reelection in 1802, he retired after March 3, 1803 from the Congress.

Then he took in New York City his work as a lawyer again. Morris was appointed U.S. Marshal in 1816, 1820, 1825 and 1829 in the Southern District of New York. He died on March 12, 1849 in New York City.