List of United States Political Families (M) - The Morris of Morrisania and New Jersey

The Morris of Morrisania and New Jersey

• Lewis Morris (1671–1746), Chief Justice of New York Colony, acting Governor of New York, Governor of New Jersey Colony. Father of Robert Hunter Morris.
  • Robert Hunter Morris (1700–1764), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Colony Supreme Court, Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania Colony 1754–1756. Son of Lewis Morris.
    • Lewis Morris (1726–1798), Delegate to the Continental Congress from New York 1775–1777, Judge of Westchester County, New York 1777; New York State Senator 1777–1781 1784–1788; delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention 1788. Nephew of Robert Hunter Morris.
    • Gouverneur Morris (1752–1816), New York Colony Congressman 1775–1777, member of the New York Council of Safety 1777, New York Assemblyman 1777–1778, Delegate to the Continental Congress from New York 1778–1779, U.S. Minister to France 1792–1794, U.S. Senator from New York 1800–1803. Nephew of Robert Hunter Morris.
    • William Paterson (1745–1806), New Jersey Colony Congressman 1775–1776, member of the New Jersey Legislature 1776–1777, Delegate to the Continental Congress from New Jersey 1776, Attorney General of New Jersey 1776–1783, U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1789–1790, Governor of New Jersey 1790–1793, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1793–1806. Cousin by marriage of Lewis Morris.
      • Stephen Van Rensselaer III (1764–1839), New York Assemblyman 1789–1791, New York State Senator 1791–1796, Lieutenant Governor of New York 1795–1801, candidate for Governor of New York 1813. Son-in-law of William Paterson.
      • Philip Schuyler Van Rensselaer (1767–1824), Mayor of Albany, New York 1799–1812. Brother of Stephen Van Rensselaer III.
      • Lewis R. Morris (1760–1825), Clerk of Windsor County, Vermont 1789–1796; Judge in Windsor County, Vermont; Vermont State Representative 1790–1791 1795–1797 1803–1808; U.S. Representative from Vermont 1797–1803. Nephew of Lewis Morris and Gouverneur Morris.
      • John Rutherfurd (1760–1840), New Jersey Assemblyman 1788–1790, U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1791–1798. Son-in-law of Lewis Morris.
        • William M. Meredith (1799–1873), Pennsylvania Assemblyman 1824–1825, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Councilman 1834–1849; U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1849–1850; Attorney General of Pennsylvania 1861–1867. Grandnephew of Gouverneur Morris.
        • Henry Bell Van Rensselaer (1810–1864), U.S. Representative from New York 1841–1843. Son of Stephen Van Rensselaer III.
          • Robert Walter Rutherfurd, member of the New Jersey Legislature. Son of John Rutherfurd.

NOTE: Gouverneur Morris was also a relative of U.S. Ambassador Wymberley DeRenne Coerr. John Rutherfurd was also of some relation to Northwest Territory Governor Arthur St. Clair.