Politics
- Robert Hunter Morris (1700–1764), Lieutenant Governor of Colonial Pennsylvania from 1754 to 1756
- Robert Morris (financier) (1734–1806), financier of the American Revolution and signatory of three important founding documents of the United States
- Robert Morris (Bartlett), a 1923 statue of financier Robert Morris, by Paul Wayland Bartlett
- Robert Morris (judge) (1745–1815), American judge
- Robert H. Morris (mayor) (1808–1855), Mayor of New York City
- Robert P. Morris (1853–1924), U.S. Representative from Minnesota
- Robert J. Morris (1914–1996), anti-Communist crusader and politician
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