Richard Morris (December 27, 1815 – August 19, 1844) was a justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas from 1841 to 1844.
Morris attended Burke High School in Richmond, and then studied for two years at the University of Virginia.
[1] After being admitted to the bar in Virginia, Morris moved to Houston in the Republic of Texas in 1838, where he partnered with fellow Virginian native James H. Davis.
In 1841 Mirabeau B. Lamar, President of the Republic of Texas, appointed Morris to the First Judicial District, automatically making him an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
[1] Despite his youth, Morris was praised for his judicial temperament, but after only three terms on the court, he died of yellow fever.