Lewis Morris (8 April 1726 – 22 January 1798) was an American Founding Father and a signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
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Lewis Morris was born in Morrisania, The Bronx, New York in 1726, and he came from a prominent family of landowners; his siblings included Staats Long Morris, Richard Morris, and Gouverneur Morris. He was elected to the New York General Assembly in 1769, and he resigned from the Admiralty Court in 1774 as the American Revolution drew near. Morris served in both the provincial congress and the Continental Congress, and he was numbered among the conservatives who initially opposed independence. He served in the New York state senate from 1777 to 1781 and from 1783 to 1790, as well as a Federalist presidential elector in 1796, and he died in 1798.