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Gouverneur Morris (/ ɡ ʌ v ər n ɪər ˈ m ɒr ɪ s / guh-vər-NEER MOR-ris; [1] January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the United States, and a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.
He married his first cousin Martha Jefferson Cary, daughter of writer Virginia Randolph Cary (1786–1852). [1] Together they had three children: Gouverneur Morris III (1842–1897); Anne Cary Morris (1847–1926), who married Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931), the British diplomat, explorer and archaeologist; [3] and Peter Randolph Morris (1865–1934), who helped to establish the ...
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.
Lewis Gouverneur Morris; Ann Cary Randolph Morris; Augustus Newbold Morris; Charles Manigault Morris; George L. K. Morris; Gouverneur Morris; Gouverneur Morris (novelist)
Lewis Morris (October 15, 1671 – May 21, 1746) was an American politician from the colonial period, who was chief justice of New York and British governor of New Jersey, was the first lord of the manor of Morrisania in New York City (in what is now the Bronx).
Randolphs who freed slaves and fought Virginia's growing dependence on the "peculiar institution" in the early Republic are less known, but include Ryland Randolph of Turkey Island and Ann Cary Randolph Morris, who later married founding father (and anti-slavery advocate) Gouverneur Morris of New York [21] Jacob Randolph of Isle of Wight County ...
The funeral was held August 6, 1877, with several prominent pallbearers including, Gouverneur Morris III, William A. Booth, Parke Godwin, Oswald Ottendorfer, William C. Sheldon, Martin Zborowski, and Andrew H. Green. [20] He was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx. [20]
Morris was born on June 4, 1882, in Newport, Rhode Island.He was the son of Francis Morris (1845–1883), a Knickerbocker gentleman and descendant of Gouverneur Morris (a signer of the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution), and his wife Harriet Hall Bedlow (1849–1923). [2]