Isaac N. Morris

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American politician

A.K.A.

Isaac Newton Morris

Places

United States of America

was

Politician Lawyer

Work field

Law Politics

Gender

Male

Birth

22 January 1812 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Bethel, Clermont County, Ohio, U.S.A.

Death

29 October 1879 People who died on this day

Age

67 years

Politics:

Democratic Party

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Biography

Isaac Newton Morris (January 22, 1812 – October 29, 1879) was a United States Representative from Illinois, son of Thomas Morris and brother of Jonathan David Morris.

Biography

Isaac N. Morris was born in Bethel, Ohio. Morris attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1835 and commenced practice in Warsaw, Illinois, in 1836. He moved to Quincy, Illinois in 1838 and continued the practice of law. He was appointed secretary of state of Illinois in 1840, but declined. He served as president of the Illinois & Michigan Canal Co. in 1841. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1846-1848.

Morris was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1861). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1860. He was appointed commissioner for the Union Pacific Railroad by President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869. Morris died in Quincy, Illinois on October 29, 1879, and was interred in Woodland Cemetery. He is the namesake of Morris, Illinois.

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