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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaDaniel MORGAN
(1736-1802)
MORGAN, Daniel, a
Representative from Virginia; born near Junction, Hunterdon County,
N.J., in 1736; moved to Charles Town, Va. (now West Virginia), in
1754; served with the Colonial forces during the French and Indian
War; during the Revolution was commissioned captain of a company of
Virginia riflemen in July 1775; was taken prisoner at Quebec
December 31, 1775; became colonel of the Eleventh Virginia Regiment
November 12, 1776 (designated the Seventh Virginia Regiment
September 14, 1778); brigadier general in the Continental Army
October 30, 1780; at the close of the war retired to his estate,
known as “Saratoga,” near Winchester, Va.; commanded
the Virginia Militia ordered out by President Washington in 1794 to
suppress the Whisky Insurrection in Pennsylvania; was an
unsuccessful Federalist candidate for election to the Fourth
Congress; elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress (March 4,
1797-March 3, 1799); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1798 on account of ill health; died in Winchester, Va., on July 6,
1802; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery.
Bibliography
Higginbotham, Don. Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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