Lewis Morris
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Morris painted by John Wollaston (c. 1750)
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New York State Senator from the Southern District |
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In office July 1, 1783 – June 30, 1790 |
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In office September 9, 1777 – July 1, 1781 |
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| Member of the Continental Congress from New York |
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In office 1775-1777 |
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| Member of the New York Provincial Congress |
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In office 1775-1777 |
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| Born | April 8, 1726 Morrisania, New York |
| Died | January 22, 1798 (aged 71) Morrisania, New York |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Walton (m. 1749) |
| Children | 10, including Richard |
| Parents | Lewis Morris Katrintje Staats |
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Staats Long Morris (brother) Richard Morris (brother) Gouverneur Morris (half-brother) Robert Hunter Morris (uncle) Lewis Morris (grandfather) John Rutherfurd (son-in-law) |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
| Known for | Signer of the Declaration of Independence |
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Lewis Morris (April 8, 1726 – January 22, 1798) was an American landowner and developer from Morrisania, New York. He signed the U.S. Declaration of Independence as a delegate to the Continental Congress from New York.
Lewis Morris was born on April 8, 1726 at his family's Morrisania estate, in what was then the Province of New York. He was the third Lewis Morris in the Morris family. He was the son of Lewis Morris (1698–1762) and Katrintje "Catherine" Staats (1697–1731). After his mother died, his father married Sarah Gouverneur (1714–1786). He graduated from Yale College in 1746, and upon his father's death in 1762, he inherited the bulk of the estate.
Morris' father had seven children, including his siblings, Staats Long Morris (1728–1800) and Richard Morris (1730–1810), and his half-siblings, Mary Lawrence, Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), Isabella and Catherine. His uncle was Robert Hunter Morris (1700–1764), the Governor of Pennsylvania. His cousin by marriage was William Paterson (1745–1806), the Governor of New Jersey and father-in-law of Stephen Van Rensselaer, the Lt. Governor of New York, who was the brother of Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mayor of Albany, New York. Anthony Walton White (1750–1803), a Continental General, was his cousin through Morris' aunt, Elizabeth Morris (1712–c.1784).
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