Morris, Gouverneur
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Morris, Gouverneur (1752–1816),graduated from King's College (1768) and, after a brief but brilliant law career, entered politics. As a member of the New York landed aristocracy, he was a conservative, but he supported the patriots in the Revolution. In the New York provincial congress he was a moderate and helped frame the state constitution. In the Continental Congress (1778–79) he drafted important documents and wrote
Observations on the American Revolution (1779). Failing reelection, he moved to Philadelphia, resumed law practice, and wrote anonymous articles on finance that led to his appointment to assist Robert Morris as superintendent of finance (1781–85). In the Constitutional Convention he favored a strong centralized government controlled by the upper class, for he was frankly cynical about democracy. He was a business agent and later U.S. minister to France (1792–94), but was recalled at French request because he opposed their Revolution. In the Senate (1800–1803) he remained a staunch Federalist. His
Diary and Letters (2 vols., 1888) and
Diary of the French Revolution (2 vols., 1938) have been issued.
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The fun-loving founding father: Gouverneur Morris, the first modern American.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reason; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
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Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
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Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution.(Napoleon's Troublesome Americans: Franco-American Relations, 1804-1815)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution...Melanie Randolph Miller has mined Gouverneur Morris's remarkable diary and correspondence...is now the editor of the new Gouverneur Morris Papers project.) Both books...
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris: The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution...revolutionary. But the aristocratic Morris family was not alone in its divided loyalties, and Gouverneur Morris, born in 1752, joined another...
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The Rake's Progress.("Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris -- The Rake Who Wrote the Constitution")(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 6/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris -- The Rake Who Wrote...a readable life of Gouverneur Morris not appeared sooner...and the protective Morris family not unnaturally...the papers of their Gouverneur. The future president...
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Exporting American revolutions: Gouverneur Morris, Thomas Jefferson, and the national struggle for universal rights in revolutionary France.
Magazine article from: Journal of the Early Republic; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; On December 7, 1791, Gouverneur Morris sat down at his desk at the Hotel...like many of his compatriots, Morris assumed that the American experience...an example the activities of Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson in Paris...
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Miller, Melanie Randolph: Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Miller, Melanie Randolph Envoy to the Terror: Gouverneur Morris and the French Revolution Dulles, VA: Potomac 284...attitude toward one of our important founding fathers, Gouverneur Morris, who wrote the final draft of the Constitution...
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GOUVERNEUR MORRIS, THE REVOLUTION'S UNUSUAL HERO
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...then stall. Few would remember Gouverneur Morris, which this book makes clear would be a mistake. For it was Morris who gave to us some of the most...family of Dutch and French origins, Morris was never a governor, although...
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Gouverneur Morris, George Washington's War Hawk
Magazine article from: The Virginia Quarterly Review; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the job was their mutual friend, Gouverneur Morris, who was already overseas in Paris...could easily skip over to England. Morris had been one of the principal architects...whether Hamilton would have preferred Morris if he had not been so conveniently...
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Gouverneur Morris
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Gouverneur Morris Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816), American statesman and diplomat, was one of the important authors of the U.S. Constitution. Gouverneur Morris was born on Jan. 31, 1752, in his family's manor house at Morrisania...
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Morris, Gouverneur
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Morris, Gouverneur (1752–1816),graduated from King's College (1768...anonymous articles on finance that led to his appointment to assist Robert Morris as superintendent of finance (1781–85). In the Constitutional...
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Morris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...admiralty. His brother, Robert Hunter Morris, c.1700-1764, b. Morrisania...last lord of the manor was Lewis Morris (1726-98; see separate article). His brothers included Gouverneur Morris (see separate article) and Richard...
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Richard Brandon Morris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Richard Brandon Morris 1904-89, American historian, b...at Columbia in 1949, and was made Gouverneur Morris professor of history in 1959. His...Also a student of legal history, Morris wrote Studies in the History of American...
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Lewis Morris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lewis Morris 1726-98, American political leader, signer of the Declaration of...Morrisania, N.Y. (now part of the Bronx); elder half brother of Gouverneur Morris. A wealthy landowner and third lord of the manor of Morrisania after...
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