Logan Morris

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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.

Born in Logan, Utah, Morris received a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1910.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/salt-lake-telegram/139301692/|title=Logan Morris Named Member of Tax Board|date=March 18, 1925|work=Salt Lake Telegram}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8E4AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA245|title=Bulletin of the University of Utah|volume=4|date=May 1911|page=245}} He was a Mormon missionary in Switzerland and Germany from 1911 to 1913,{{cite web|url=https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/missionary/individual/logan-morris-1889?lang=eng |title=Logan Morris|publisher=The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|access-date=July 13, 2020}} and then served as secretary to Senator Reed Smoot,"Tax Appeal Board Is Placed In Peril By Senate Delay", The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (June 6, 1926), p. 4."Thirteen Members of Board of Tax Appeals Reappointed", National Income Tax Magazine (June 1926), vol. 4, no. 6, p. 206-210. moving to Washington, D.C., for that purpose in 1914,"Comforts Return Home After Trip", The Greenville News (November 2, 1966), p. 16. and receiving his law degree from the George Washington University in 1917."G. W. U. Notes", The Washington Herald (February 17, 1918), p. 18. 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/11/02/logan-morris-1st-appointee-to-us-board-of-tax-appeals/f753a5c3-c350-46b9-ba6d-c35bc1acb240/ |title=Logan Morris, 1st Appointee To U.S. Board of Tax Appeals|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 2, 1977}}

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

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