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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkGouverneur MORRIS
(1752-1816)
Senate Years of Service:
1800-1803Party: FederalistMORRIS, Gouverneur, (half
brother of Lewis Morris and uncle of Lewis Richard Morris), a
Delegate and a Senator from New York; born in Morrisania (now a
part of New York City), N.Y., January 31, 1752; instructed by
private tutors; graduated from King’s College (now Columbia
University), New York, in 1768; studied law; admitted to the
colonial bar in 1771 and commenced practice in New York City;
member, New York provincial congress 1775-1777; lieutenant colonel
in the State militia in 1776; member of the committee to prepare a
form of government for the State of New York in 1776; member of the
first State council of safety in 1777; member, first State assembly
1777-1778; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778 and 1779;
signer of the Articles of Confederation in 1778; moved to
Philadelphia in 1779; appointed assistant superintendent of finance
1781-1785; Pennsylvania delegate to the convention that framed the
Constitution of the United States in 1787; returned to live in New
York in 1788; went to Europe on business in 1789; Minister
Plenipotentiary to France 1792-1794; returned to the United States
in 1798; elected in 1800 as a Federalist to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James
Watson and served from April 3, 1800, to March 3, 1803;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1802; chairman of the Erie
Canal Commission 1810-1813; author on legal and political subjects;
died in Morrisania, N.Y., November 6, 1816; interment in St.
Anne’s Episcopal Churchyard, Bronx, N.Y.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Morris, Gouverneur. The
Diary of Gouverneur Morris. Edited by Anne Morris. 2 vols.
1888. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; Brookhiser, Richard.
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote
the Constitution. New York: Free Press, 2003; Adams, William
Howard. Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2003.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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