Morris Founding Fathers

Here are Gouveneur Morris and Robert Morris, painted by Charles Wilson Peale in 1783. The two were not related but they shared a January 31st birthday (1752, 1734) and distinction as Founding Fathers. 

Robert Morris served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and was one of only two people who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. (Roger Sherman is the other.) Robert served as Superintendent of Finance of the U.S. in 1781-1784. With Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, Robert is one of the founders of the U.S. financial system. 

Gouveneur Morris not only signed both the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution, he also wrote the final version of the Constitution's Preamble. He advanced the idea of being a citizen of the Union, rather than only the citizen of an individual state. (This idea continued to develop in the U.S.). Gouveneur was also one of the outspoken opponents to slavery at the constitutional convention. He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1800 to 1803.

The two men served together in the 1780s when Robert was Superintendent of Finance and Gouveneur was Assistant Superintendent.