Toby Morris

Toby Morris ( born February 28, 1899 in Granbury, Texas, † September 1, 1973 in Lawton, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1947 and 1953, and from 1957 to 1961, he was the sixth election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Already in 1906 came Toby Morris in the former Oklahoma Territory. In 1913 he settled in Walters in Cotton County. There he attended the public schools. During the First World War he was a soldier in the U.S. Army. After the war, Morris studied law; in 1920 he was admitted to the bar. Between 1921 and 1925 he was employed at the court in Cotton County, from 1925 to 1929 he was district attorney. He then worked as a private lawyer. Between 1937 and 1946 Morris officiated as a district judge in the 21st Judicial District of Oklahoma.

In 1946 he was in the sixth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he broke on January 3, 1947 from Jed Johnson, whom he had beaten in the primaries. After a re-election in 1952, he was initially able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1953. In the elections of 1952 he lost in the primaries of his party against Victor Wickersham.

From January 1955 to December 1956 Morris was district judge for the fifth judicial district of Oklahoma. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was able to regain his old seat in parliament and then between 3 January 1957 and 1961 to spend January 3, two other legislative periods in Congress. In 1960 he was defeated in the primaries again Wickersham, then the seat in Congress again took over. Between 1961 and 1963, Morris Judge at the Oklahoma State Industrial Court was Thereafter, he was until 1971 the district judge in Oklahoma. Then he withdrew into retirement. Toby Morris died two years later in Lawton and was also buried there.