Lewis R. Morris

Lewis Richard Morris (November 2, 1760–December 29, 1825) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a United States Representative from Vermont.

For other people named Lewis Morris, see Lewis Morris (disambiguation).

Lewis R. Morris
1798 engraving by Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin.
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Vermont's 2nd district
In office
May 22, 1797 – March 3, 1803
Preceded byDaniel Buck
Succeeded byJames Elliot
Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
In office
1795–1797
1803–1808
Personal details
Born(1760-11-02)November 2, 1760
Scarsdale, New York
DiedDecember 29, 1825(1825-12-29) (aged 65)
Springfield, Vermont
Political partyFederalist
Spouse(s)Hulda Theodosia Olcott
Ellen Hunt
ParentsRichard Morris
Sarah Ludlow

Early life

Morris was born in Scarsdale, New York to Sarah Ludlow (1730–1791) and Richard Morris (1730–1810), Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court from 1779 to 1790. Morris attended the common schools. While in his teens, Morris served as an aide to General Philip Schuyler and then to General George Clinton (vice president) during the American Revolutionary War.[1] Morris was a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris.[2]

Career

In 1786, Morris moved to Springfield, Vermont and established himself as a businessman, landowner and politician. He served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs from 1781 to 1783. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785 and was tax collector in 1786 and 1787. He served as a selectman on the town council in 1788, and as town treasurer from 1790 to 1794.[3] Morris was Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796. He served as judge of the Windsor County court until 1801.

Morris was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution.[4] He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. Morris attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, Vermont, where he voted in support of the Constitution. On March 4, 1791 President George Washington appointed him the first U.S. Marshal of the District of Vermont. He served as Marshal until 1794 and was succeeded by his deputy, Jabez G. Fitch.[5][6]

Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817.[7] He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker.[8] He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from May 22, 1797 to March 3, 1803.[9]

Personal life

Morris married Mary Dwight, daughter of Timothy and Mary Edwards Dwight, Hulda Theodosia Olcott, who died soon after their marriage and Ellen Hunt, daughter of Jonathan Hunt.

Morris died on December 29, 1825 in Springfield, Vermont, and is interred at Forest Hill Cemetery in Charlestown, New Hampshire.[10]

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gollark: Anyway, going through #12 in order:> `import math, collections, random, gc, hashlib, sys, hashlib, smtplib, importlib, os.path, itertools, hashlib`> `import hashlib`We need some libraries to work with. Hashlib is very important, so to be sure we have hashlib we make sure to keep importing it.> `ℤ = int`> `ℝ = float`> `Row = "__iter__"`Create some aliases for int and float to make it mildly more obfuscated. `Row` is not used directly in anywhere significant.> `lookup = [...]`These are a bunch of hashes used to look up globals/objects. Some of them are not actually used. There is deliberately a comma missing, because of weird python string concattey things.```pythondef aes256(x, X): import hashlib A = bytearray() for Α, Ҙ in zip(x, hashlib.shake_128(X).digest(x.__len__())): A.append(Α ^ Ҙ) import zlib, marshal, hashlib exec(marshal.loads(zlib.decompress(A)))```Obviously, this is not actual AES-256. It is abusing SHAKE-128's variable length digests to implement what is almost certainly an awful stream cipher. The arbitrary-length hash of our key, X, is XORed with the data. Finally, the result of this is decompressed, loaded (as a marshalled function, which is extremely unportable bytecode I believe), and executed. This is only used to load one piece of obfuscated code, which I may explain later.> `class Entry(ℝ):`This is also only used once, in `typing` below. Its `__init__` function implements Rule 110 in a weird and vaguely golfy way involving some sets and bit manipulation. It inherits from float, but I don't think this does much.> `#raise SystemExit(0)`I did this while debugging the rule 110 but I thought it would be fun to leave it in.> `def typing(CONSTANT: __import__("urllib3")):`This is an obfuscated way to look up objects and load our obfuscated code.> `return getattr(Entry, CONSTANT)`I had significant performance problems, so this incorporates a cache. This was cooler™️ than dicts.
gollark: The tiebreaker algorithm is vulnerable to any attack against Boris Johnson's Twitter account.
gollark: I can't actually shut them down, as they run on arbitrary google services.
gollark: Clearly, mgollark is sabotaging me.

References
  1. "LEWIS R. MORRIS (1760–1825)". US Marshals Museum. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  2. "MORRIS, Lewis Richard, (1760–1825)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  3. "The First Marshal of Vermont: Lewis R. Morris". US Marshals Service. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  4. "Morris, Lewis Richard (1760–1825)". ThePolitical Graveyard. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  5. "LEWIS R. MORRIS (1760–1825)". US Marshals Museum. Archived from the original on January 25, 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  6. "To George Washington from Samuel Hitchcock, 16 May 1794". Founders Online. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  7. "MORRIS, Lewis Richard, (1760–1825)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  8. "Speakers of the House". Vermont Office of the Secretary of the State. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  9. "Rep. Lewis Morrispublisher=govtrack.us". Retrieved October 24, 2012.
  10. "Morris, Lewis Richard (1760–1825)". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved October 24, 2012.


U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Daniel Buck		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Vermont's 2nd congressional district
May 22, 1797 – March 3, 1803		 Succeeded by
James Elliot
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