Background
Morrison was born in Hammond, the principal city of Tangipahoa Parish, one the "Florida Parishes" east of Baton Rouge, to banker-merchant Benjamin M. Morrison and the former Florence Hobson (1878–1972) of Greensboro in Hale County in the western Black Belt of Alabama. A maternal uncle, Richmond Pearson Hobson was a naval hero in the Spanish-American War and later served five terms in the U.S. House from Alabama.
Morrison attended public schools and obtained the Juris Doctor degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans in 1934. He practiced law in Hammond with Joseph A. Sims, later an aide to Governor Earl Kemp Long.
In 1940, Morrison married the former Marjorie Abbey (born ca. 1917) of Webb in Tallahatchie County in northwestern Mississippi. The couple had two sons, James Hobson Morrison, Jr. (born ca. 1943) of Hammond, and Benjamin Abbey Morrison (born ca. 1945) of New Orleans.
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