[3][4] Morris was born in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on February 7, 1909.

He served as Vice Consul in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1938), and Stockholm, Sweden (1943).

He also served in Berlin (before and after World War II), Moscow, London, Bonn, Montreal, Vienna, Dresden, and Frankfurt.

[6] In 1963, Morris was nominated to be the United States Ambassador to Chad by President Kennedy, and was confirmed on August 12, 1963.

He later retired from the Foreign Service and died at his home in Tiburon, California, on September 3, 1990.