Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907

LC control no.	n 86808253
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Personal name heading	Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Morgan, Senator (John Tyler), 1824-1907 Morgan, Mr. (John Tyler), 1824-1907 Morgan, J. T. (John Tyler), 1824-1907
Birth date	1824-06-20
Death date	1907-06-11
Place of birth	Athens (Tenn.)
Place of death	Washington (D.C.)
Affiliation	United States. Congress. Senate Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Legislators
Found in	nuc86-13779: Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration. Opinion of Senator Morgan ... 1893 (hdg. on MiU rept.: Morgan, John Tyler, 1824-1907) Fry, J.A. John Tyler Morgan and the search for southern autonomy, c1992. In the Senate of the United States, 1891: p. 1 (Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs) Belligerent rights for Cuba, 1897: t.p. (J. T. Morgan) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed April 27, 2023 (Morgan, John Tyler, a Senator from Alabama; born in Athens, McMinn County, Tenn., June 20, 1824; moved with his parents to Alabama in 1833 and settled in Calhoun County; attended frontier schools; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Talladega, Ala.; moved to Dallas County, Ala., in 1855 and resumed the practice of law in Selma and Cahaba; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1860; delegate from Dallas County to the State convention of 1861 which passed the ordinance of secession; during the Civil War enlisted in the Confederate Army in 1861 and rose to brigadier general; after the war resumed the practice of law in Selma, Ala.; presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1876; reelected in 1882, 1888, 1894, 1900, and 1906, and served from March 4, 1877, until his death; chairman, Committee on Rules (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on Foreign Relations (Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Fifty-sixth and Fifty-seventh Congresses), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Fifty-ninth Congress); died in Washington, D.C., June 11, 1907; interment in Live Oak Cemetery, Selma, Dallas County, Ala.)