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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaJohn Tyler MORGAN
(1824-1907)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1907Party: DemocratMORGAN, 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.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Fry, Joseph A. John Tyler Morgan and the Search
for Southern Identity. Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1992; Upchurch, Thomas Adams. “Senator John Tyler
Morgan and the Genesis of Jim Crow Ideology, 1889-1891.”
Alabama Review 57 (April 2004): 110-131.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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