Alfred Hennen Morris

Who was Alfred Hennen Morris?

Alfred Hennen Morris was an American businessman politician, and racehorse owner/breeder.

The son of Louisiana Lottery "king" John Albert Morris and his wife Cora Hennen, he was named for his maternal grandfather, Judge Alfred Hennen, of New Orleans, a Justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court.

In 1889, he married Jessie Harding of Philadelphia, the daughter of William W. Harding who had owned the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper.

Alfred Morris finished out his term as a member of the New York Legislature in 1893 and in 1900 was appointed a school commissioner for Manhattan and The Bronx by Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck.