Thomas Morris (Wisconsin politician)

Thomas Morris ( born December 9, 1861 in Saint- Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, † September 17, 1928 in Manhattan, New York ) was an American politician and from 1911 to 1915 Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.

Morris was born the son of Irish immigrants in Saint- Hyacinthe, Québec. He attended Bedford Academy and then studied medicine. However, the study did not say to him, and he went to St. John, where he worked the next few years as a clerk in a large department store. Later, Morris moved to the United States to Syracuse in upstate New York, and has been in the coal trading. After three years he sold his business and settled in May 1886 in La Crosse, Wisconsin down.

He studied at the Law School of the University of Wisconsin. In 1889 he received his degree and practiced in La Crosse. 1898-1900 Morris was Distrikanwalt ( district attorney ) of La Crosse County. 1904 to 1910 he was a senator in the Senate of Wisconsin. In 1910 he became Robert M. La Follette sr. nominated as a candidate of the Republican Party for governor. However, this was rejected by the party and ran as Morris for the office of vice governor. Successfully re-elected in 1912, he held the office for two terms from 1911 to 1915. In 1915, Morris moved back to politics and was re- worked as a lawyer. He died in 1928 in New York at the home of his daughter.