John Miller Morris, Jr.

John Miller Morris, Jr. (1952 – February 16, 2017), was a geographer from Texas, who was a full professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He resided in the capital city of Austin.

Morris was reared in Amarillo, Texas. His family business, the C. B. Morris Company, was among the first family farm corporations in the state. As a youth, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout. He received a Bachelor of Arts; two master's degrees, one in community planning and the other in Slavic languages, and the Ph.D. in geography and planning. All of his studies were at the University of Texas at Austin, at which he also competed in fencing.

His study El Llano Estacado is the definitive work on the history, geography, peoples, and culture of the region of West Texas known as the "Staked Plains". He also authored A Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion and

He procured awards from the University of Texas Regents for "Outstanding Teaching" and the Minnie Stevens Piper professorship for his teaching and academic achievement." He was a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, the Texas State Historical Association, and the West Texas Historical Association. At the time of his death in San Antonio from complications of surgery, he was the outgoing president of the WTHA and had been preparing for the annual meeting to be held April 7-8 in Lubbock.

He was active in clean-up drives in his Austin neighborhood and the surrounding area of Ranch-to-Market 2222. He worked to improve and expand the hiking trail at Long Canyon. He served numerous terms on his homeowner's association board. He worked with developers to assure that buildings would be as unobtrusive as possible in line with the beauty of the scenic Texas Hill Country. He spent years restoring a 140-year-old Victorian house that he rescued from demolition and moved to the hills and woods of west Austin.

Professor Miller was survived by a daughter, Erin Claire Noakes of Washington D.C.