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- Buckner_Stith_Morris abstract "Buckner Stith Morris (August 19, 1800 – December 16, 1879) served as Mayor of Chicago, Illinois (1838–1839) for the Whig Party.Morris married Evelina Barker in Kentucky in 1832 and the couple moved to Chicago in 1834 where Morris established a law practice with J. Young Scammon and created the Chicago Lyceum, the city's first literary society. By 1835, however, Morris had left Scammon and was practicing law with Edward Casey. He was elected mayor of Chicago in 1838 and went on to serve terms as a city alderman. He ran for the office of Illinois Secretary of State in 1852 under the Whig ticket and served as a Lake County Circuit Court Judge from 1853-1855.Following Evelina's death in 1847, he married Eliza Stephenson in 1850. Eliza died in 1855.The former mayor was outspoken in his opposition the American Civil War and was suspected to sympathise with the "Copperheads." In 1864, he was arrested for aiding in a Confederate attempt to free prisoners of war from Camp Douglas. He was held for 9 months, but was then exonerated by a military court. Being unable, while so detained, to attend to his business affairs, he lost most of his assets through foreclosures. Incensed over the treatment of their ancestor, his heirs refused to permit the donation of his historical material, diaries, etc., to the Chicago Historical Society, despite urging to that end.The first use recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary of the phrase, to hell in a hand basket, is in The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details, by I. Windslow Ayer, in alleging that, at a meeting of the Order of the Sons of Liberty, Judge Morris of the Circuit Court of Illinois said: "Thousands of our best men were prisoners in Camp Douglas, and if once at liberty would 'send abolitionists to hell in a hand basket.'"".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris birthDate "1800-08-19".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris birthPlace Augusta,_Kentucky.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris birthYear "1800".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris deathDate "1879-12-16".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris deathPlace Chicago.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris deathYear "1879".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris orderInOffice "2nd".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris orderInOffice "Mayor of Chicago".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris party Know_Nothing.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris party Whig_Party_(United_States).
- Buckner_Stith_Morris residence Illinois.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris successor Benjamin_Wright_Raymond.
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- Buckner_Stith_Morris wikiPageWikiLinkText "Buckner Stith Morris".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris wikiPageWikiLinkText "Judge Morris".
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- Buckner_Stith_Morris birthDate "1800-08-19".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris birthPlace Augusta,_Kentucky.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris dateOfBirth "1800-08-19".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris dateOfDeath "1879-12-16".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris deathDate "1879-12-16".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris deathPlace Chicago.
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- Buckner_Stith_Morris name "Buckner Stith Morris".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris name "Morris, Buckner".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris office "Mayor of Chicago".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris order "2".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris party Know-Nothing.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris party Know_Nothing.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris party Whig_Party_(United_States).
- Buckner_Stith_Morris placeOfBirth Augusta,_Kentucky.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris placeOfDeath Chicago.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris predecessor William_B._Ogden.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris predecessor William_Butler_Ogden.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris profession "Lawyer".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris residence "Chicago, Illinois".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris shortDescription "American mayor".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris spouse "Eliza Stephenson".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris spouse "Evelina Barker".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris successor Benjamin_Wright_Raymond.
- Buckner_Stith_Morris termEnd "1839".
- Buckner_Stith_Morris termStart "1838".
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