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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaMORGAN, John Tyler
(1824—1907)
Senate Years of Service:
1877-1907
Party:
Democrat
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.
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.
Anders, James Marvin. “The Senatorial Career of John Tyler Morgan.” Ph.D. dissertation, George Peabody College for Teachers of Vanderbilt University, 1956.
Baylen, Joseph O. “Senator John Tyler Morgan, E.D. Morel, and the Congo Reform Association.” Alabama Review
15 (April 1962): 117-32.
Baylen, Joseph O., and John Hammond Moore. “Senator John Tyler Morgan and Negro Colonization in the Philippines, 1901-1902.” Phylon
(Spring 1968): 65-75.
Burnette, O. Lawrence, Jr. “John Tyler Morgan and Expansionist Sentiment in the New South.” Alabama Review
18 (July 1965): 163-82.
Fry, Joseph A. “An Unlikely ‘Friend’ to Native Americans: John Tyler Morgan and Gilded Age Indian Policy.” Hayes Historical Journal
11 (1992): 5-18.
___. “Governor Johnston’s Attempt to Unseat Senator Morgan, 1899-1900.” Alabama Review
38 (October 1985): 243-79.
___. John Tyler Morgan and the Search for Southern Autonomy
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
___. “John Tyler Morgan’s Southern Expansionism.” Diplomatic History
9 (Fall 1985): 329-46.
Radke, August C., Jr. “John Tyler Morgan, An Expansionist Senator, 1877-1907.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington, 1953.
___. “Senator Morgan and the Nicaraguan Canal.” Alabama Review
12 (January 1959): 5-34.
Upchurch, Thomas Adams. “Senator John Tyler Morgan and the Genesis of Jim Crow Ideology, 1889-1891.” Alabama Review
57 (April 2004): 110-131.
U.S. Congress. John Tyler Morgan and Edmund Winston Pettus (Late Senators from Alabama)
. 60th Cong., 1st sess., 1907-1908. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909.
Watson, Elbert L. “John Tyler Morgan.” In Alabama United States Senators
, pp. 82-85. Huntsville, AL: Strode Publishers, 1982.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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