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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyDwight Whitney MORROW
(1873-1931)
Senate Years of Service:
1930-1931Party: RepublicanMORROW, Dwight Whitney, a
Senator from New Jersey; born in Huntington, Cabell County, W.Va.,
January 11, 1873; moved with his parents to Allegheny (now a part
of Pittsburgh), Pa., in 1875; attended the public schools;
graduated from Amherst College in 1895; studied law at Columbia
University; admitted to the bar in 1899 and engaged in practice in
New York City; moved to Englewood, N.J., in 1903; engaged in
banking and served as director of many industrial and financial
corporations; during the First World War was director of the
National War Savings Committee for the State of New Jersey; served
abroad as advisor to the Allied Maritime Transport Council, as a
member of the Military Board of Allied Supply and as a civilian
aid; chairman of the New Jersey Prison Inquiry Commission 1917-1918
and of the New Jersey State Board of Institutions and Agencies
1918-1920; chairman of the Aircraft Board created by President
Calvin Coolidge in 1925; appointed Ambassador to Mexico by
President Coolidge 1927-1930; delegate to the Sixth Pan American
Conference held at Havana in 1928 and to the London Naval
Conference in 1930; elected on November 4, 1930, as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending
March 3, 1931, caused by the resignation of Walter E. Edge, and at
the same time was elected for the term commencing March 4, 1931,
and served from December 3, 1930, until his death in Englewood,
N.J., on October 5, 1931; interment in Brookside Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; McBride, Mary. The Story of Dwight W. Morrow.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1930; Nicolson, Harold. Dwight
Morrow. 1935. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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