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. ==References==