{"id":2053,"date":"2020-03-31T18:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2023-06-29T17:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:20:53","slug":"toby-morris-1899-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/toby-morris-1899-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"TOBY MORRIS                                                  1899 &#8211; 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>MORRIS<\/strong>, Toby, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/lon-morris\/\">Granbury<\/a>, Hood County, Texas, February 28, 1899; <em>[ed note:  grandson of Burr Morris]<\/em> moved to what was then Comanche County, Oklahoma, in 1906 and to Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma, in 1913; attended the public schools, leaving high school in his senior year, during the First World War, to enlist in the United States Army; served successively as private, corporal, and sergeant with the 110th Combat Engineers, attached to the 35th Division, from October 1917 to May 1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1920; court clerk of Cotton County, Oklahoma, 1921-1925 and prosecuting attorney 1925-1929; began the private practice of law in Walters, Oklahoma, in 1929; district judge of the 21st judicial district of Oklahoma from 1937 to 1946; elected as a Democrat to the 80th and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1953); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952 to the 83rd Congress; district judge of the 5th judicial district of Oklahoma from January 1955 to December 1956; elected to the 85th and to the 86th Congresses (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1961); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1960 to the 87th Congress; judge, Oklahoma State Industrial Court, July 1, 1961, to July 17, 1963; district judge for the State of Oklahoma, retiring in January 1971; resided in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he died September 1, 1973; interment in Sunset Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma, holds the&nbsp;Toby Morris Collection, 1946-1960, on his congressional career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORRIS, Toby, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in\u00a0Granbury, Hood County, Texas, February 28, 1899; [ed note: grandson of Burr Morris] moved to what was then Comanche County, Oklahoma, in 1906 and to Walters, Cotton County, Oklahoma, in 1913; attended the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/biography\/toby-morris-1899-1973\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5354,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/5354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/granburydepot.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}