 Earlier he was United States Ambassador to Iceland from 1942.Morris served many other diplomatic posts including American Consul General in Jerusalem in 1936, American Consul General in Vienna from 1938 to 1940 after the German annexation of Austria and the American "chargé d'affaires" in Germany during the outbreak of official American involvement in World War II.His mother was Susan Frances (née Reece) Morris and his father was Louis Thompson Morris, a colonel in the United States Army.