William W. Morrow

William W. Morrow (* July 15, 1843 in Milton, Wayne County, Indiana; † July 24, 1929 in San Francisco, California ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1885 and 1891 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Already in 1845 came William Morrow with his parents in the Adams County, Illinois, where he later both public and private schools attended. In 1859 he moved to Santa Rosa, California, where he worked as a teacher and in mining. In 1862 he returned to the eastern United States to participate as a soldier in the army of the Union in the Civil War. He belonged to the Army of the Potomac. Between 1865 and 1869 Morrow worked for the U.S. Treasury Department in California. After a simultaneous study of law and its 1869 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to practice in this profession in San Francisco. Between 1870 and 1874 Morrow was Deputy Attorney General of California. In 1872 he was involved in the founding of the Bar Association of San Francisco, as its president, he served in 1892 and 1893.

At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1879 and 1882 he was state chairman of his party in California. In the years 1880 to 1883 Morrow was a lawyer of Port State Commission of California. He also appeared as an attorney in front of two commissions for the clarification of war reparations. He involved the French and American Claims Commission and the Alabama Claims Commission. In June 1884 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated for the James G. Blaine as their presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1884 Morrow was in the fourth electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Pleasant B. Tully on March 4, 1885. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1891 three legislative periods. In 1890 he gave up another candidacy.

On August 11, 1891 Morrow was appointed by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison to the judge at the Federal District Court for Northern California, where he by the Senate on January 11, 1892 became the successor of the late Ogden Hoffman after confirmation. Following the appointment of Joseph McKenna to U.S. Attorney General nominated President William McKinley as his successor at the Federal Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit court of William Morrow, who took this office on 20 May 1897. On January 1, 1923, he retired. Morrow was also a co-founder of the American Red Cross. He died on 24 July 1929 in San Francisco.