Hood County Texas Genealogical Society
TOBY MORRIS
1899 - 1973
MORRIS, Toby, a Representative
from Oklahoma; born in Granbury, Hood County,
Texas, February 28, 1899; 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.
The Carl Albert
Center Congressional Archives, University of Oklahoma, holds the Toby Morris
Collection, 1946-1960, on his congressional career.
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