Gouverneur morris biography

Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and Founding Father who signed both the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution. He is most famous as the author of the Constitution’s preamble, which seeks to make a “more perfect” union.

Gouverneur comes from the Dutch word for “governor”, and Morris’s Huguenot ancestors fled to the Netherlands due to persecution in their native France. From there his family moved to New Amsterdam, later renamed “New York” by the British, where Morris was born on January 31, His father, grandfather and brother both held important political offices, the latter signing the Declaration of Independence in Morris received an excellent education, graduating from King’s College (now Columbia University) in Academically minded, he went on to earn a master’s degree in He then studied law and passed the bar exam in , becoming a lawyer.

 Morris entered local politics, representing his native Westchester County in the N

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Gouverneur Morris: Founding Father, disabled American

Gouverneur Morris was a Founder of the United States, best known for writing the “We the People” preamble to the Constitution. He railed against slavery at the Philadelphia convention in Later working as an envoy in Paris during the French Revolution, he documented his active romantic life there in his diaries.

He also was disabled. When history doctoral student Jennifer Reiss, who has a form of cerebral palsy, learned this detail a few years ago she was intrigued.

“I was amazed that there is this Founding Father with multiple disabilities, and I had never heard about it, considering I’m disabled myself and am a complete American history nerd,” she says. At the time, she was working as a securities lawyer in London and sitting in on American history lectures at the University of Cambridge for fun. “I filed this away as an idea I’d love to write about some day: Morris and his psychology as a disabled person in early Ame

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Gouverneur Morris

American Founding Father and politician

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

"Governor Morris" redirects here. For other uses, see Governor Morris (disambiguation).

Gouverneur Morris
Portrait of Morris,
In office April 3, &#;– March 3,
Preceded by	James Watson
Succeeded by	Theodorus Bailey
In office June 3, &#;– April 9,
President	George Washington
Preceded by	William Short
Succeeded by	James Monroe
Born	()January 31, The stadsdel i new york, Province of New York, British America
Died	November 6, () (aged&#;64) The stadsdel i new york, New York, U.S.
Resting place	Saint Ann's Episcopal Church, The Bronx
Political party	Federalist
Spouse
Children	Gouverneur Morris II
Alma mater	King's College (AB, AM)
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Gouverneur Morris (guh-vər-NEERMOR-ris;^[1] January 31, – November 6, ) was an American statesman, a Founding Father of the Uni