[6] Returning from the war, he was a clerk for the United States Senate Committee on Public Lands, and an attorney for various government agencies.
[6][8] 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.
[8] Morris served in that body for 12 years, including a four-year term as chief judge.
[6][8] Morris resigned from the Board of Tax Appeals in 1937 to enter private practice,[8] and was succeeded by Clarence V.
[9] Morris retired from the practice of law in 1963, and died at Washington Hospital Center at the age of 88.