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Joseph L. Morphis

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

(April 17, 1831 — July 29, 1913) Morphis was a planter, trader, and politician. Joseph Lewis Morphis was born in Tennessee in 1831. He received an elementary education and became a planter. In 1859, he was elected a member fo the State House of Representatives, where he served until the start of the Civil War. During the war, Morphis served in the Confederate Army as a captain. In 1863, he moved with his family to Mississippi where he served in the State House of Representatives and was a delegate to the constitutional convention in 1865. Morphis was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives and served from February 23, 1870 to March 3, 1873. After serving in Congress, he was licensed as an Indian trader and worked in that occupation until 1901. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000963]

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