* Harry Lyon Morris; Former Liberian Delegate to U.N.
Harry Lyon Morris, 77, a Liberian delegate to the United Nations from 1959 to 1980 and an ambassador at large for Liberia in the 1970s. Morris was the son of John Lewis Morris, secretary of the interior and of public works in Liberia in the 1920s. He was a grandson of Ernest Lyon, a onetime U.S. minister to Liberia. Morris worked in the rubber industry from 1934 to 1980. He later became chief executive of Morris Rubber, a family company. In 1980, he turned management of the company over to his son. In New York City on Nov. 26 of lung cancer.
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