Background
Morris, Mathias was born on September 12, 1787 in Hilltown, Pennsylvania, United States.
Morris, Mathias was born on September 12, 1787 in Hilltown, Pennsylvania, United States.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
He elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congresses. He was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State during the Twenty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress.
He died in Doylestown, Buckinghamshire County, Pennsylvania, in 1839.
Interment in Hilltown Baptist Church Cemetery, near Fricks, Pennsylvania.
He was deputy attorney general in 1819, and a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1828 to 1833.