Joseph Lewis Morphis (April 17, 1831 – July 29, 1913) was aU.S. representative fromMississippi.
Born nearPocahontas,McNairy County, Tennessee, Morphis pursued elementary studies.
He engaged in planting. He served as a member of theMississippi House of Representatives in 1859. He entered theConfederate States Army ascaptain in August 1861 and served until the close of theCivil War.He moved with his family toPontotoc, Mississippi, in 1863.
He served as a member of the State constitutional convention in 1865.He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1866 to 1868.Upon Mississippi's readmission to the Union, Morhpis was elected inMississippi's 2nd congressional district as aRepublican to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses and served from February 23, 1870, to March 3, 1873.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1872.He was appointed by PresidentRutherford Hayes as United States Marshal of the Northern District of Mississippi, serving from 1877 to 1885.Licensed as an Indian trader on theOsage Reservation in 1890 and engaged in that occupation until 1901. He lived in retirement until his death inCleveland, Oklahoma, July 29, 1913. He was interred in Woodland Cemetery.
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