Thomas Morris (December 9, 1861 – September 17, 1928) was the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1911 until 1915. He was born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, St. Arnold Parish, Quebec. Morris settled in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where, he was a barber. Thomas Morris went to law school in Madison, Wisconsin, and returned to La Crosse, where he practice law. He married Lillian L. Pendleton and had nine children.
He was elected District Attorney for La Crosse County, Wisconsin and was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate. Thomas Morris was instrumental in establishing what is now University of Wisconsin–La Crosse in 1909. In 1911, Morris was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin as a Republican serving until 1915.
Thomas Morris died in New York City of a heart attack at the age of 67.
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“If worship have kept me, I had not gone.
If wit might have me saved, I needed not fear.”
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“The white dominant culture seemed to think that once the Indians were off the reservations, they’d eventually become like everybody else. But they aren’t like everybody else. When the Indianness is drummed out of them, they are turned into hopeless drunks on skid row.”
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