Logan Morris

For the Australian footballer, see Logan Morris (footballer) .

Logan Meyer Morris (October 25, 1889 – October 20, 1977) was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court ) from 1925 to 1937.

Logan Morris in 1926

Born in Logan, Utah , Morris received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1910.

He was a Mormon missionary in Switzerland and Germany from 1911 to 1913, and then served as secretary to Senator Reed Smoot ,

moving to Washington, D.C. , for that purpose in 1914, and receiving his law degree from the George Washington University in 1917. He served as an officer in the United States Army in World War I . Returning from the war, he was a clerk for the United States Senate Committee on Public Lands , and an attorney for various government agencies.

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Morris as a special attorney for the Bureau of Internal Revenue , and in 1925, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Morris to the newly formed Board of Tax Appeals. Morris served in that body for 12 years, including a four-year term as chief judge.

Morris resigned from the Board of Tax Appeals in 1937 to enter private practice, and was succeeded by Clarence V. Opper .

Morris retired from the practice of law in 1963, and died at Washington Hospital Center at the age of 88.

References

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 [_Bulletin of the University of Utah_](https://books.google.com/books?id=L8E4AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA245)
. Vol. 4\. May 1911. p. 245.

1. ↑ "Logan Morris Named Member of Tax Board" . Salt Lake Telegram. March 18, 1925.
2. ↑ "Logan Morris" . The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . Retrieved July 13, 2020.
3. ↑ "Tax Appeal Board Is Placed In Peril By Senate Delay", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 6, 1926), p. 4.
4. ↑ "Thirteen Members of Board of Tax Appeals Reappointed", National Income Tax Magazine (June 1926), vol. 4, no. 6, p. 206-210.

 "Comforts Return Home After Trip", _The Greenville News_ (November 2, 1966), p. 16.

1. ↑ "G. W. U. Notes", The Washington Herald (February 17, 1918), p. 18.

 ["Logan Morris, 1st Appointee To U.S. Board of Tax Appeals"](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/11/02/logan-morris-1st-appointee-to-us-board-of-tax-appeals/f753a5c3-c350-46b9-ba6d-c35bc1acb240/)
. _[The Washington Post](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post "The Washington Post")
_. November 2, 1977.

1. ↑ "Logan Morris Vacancy On Tax Board Filled", The Salt Lake Tribune (January 13, 1938), p. 4.

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