Charles Henry Morgan

Charles Henry Morgan

Charles Henry Morgan (born July 5, 1842 in Cuba , Allegany County , New York , †  January 4, 1912 in Joplin , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1911 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

In 1845, Charles Morgan moved with his parents to Pewaukee , Wisconsin , where he attended public schools. He then graduated from high school in Fond du Lac . Morgan served in the Union Army during the Civil War ; he rose from the common soldier to the captain of an infantry unit from Wisconsin. After a subsequent law degree at the Albany Law School in New York State and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession from 1868 in Lamar (Missouri). He then spent four years in Barton County thereactive as public prosecutor. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Morgan was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1872 to 1874 . In the congressional election of 1874 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Harrison E. Havens on March 4, 1875 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1879 . In 1878 he was not re-elected. In 1880 Morgan was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , where Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1882 he was re-elected to Congress in the twelfth district of his state as the successor to William H. Hatch , where he spent another term until March 3, 1885. During this time he was chairman of the Ministry of Post's Expenditure Control Committee. In 1884 he missed re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1892 , Morgan was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the then newly created 15th District, where he completed another legislative period between March 4, 1893 and March 3, 1895. In 1894 he was not nominated for re-election by his party. Morgan was a lieutenant colonel in a Missouri infantry unit during the Spanish-American War . From 1907 he lived in Joplin, where he worked in the mining industry. Politically, he had since left the Democrats and joined the Republican Party . In 1908 he was re-elected as their candidate in the 15th constituency in Congress, where he succeeded Thomas Hackney on March 4, 1909 . Since he was not re-elected in 1910, he could only serve one more term in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1911. Charles Morgan died in Joplin on January 4, 1912.

Web links

• Charles Henry Morgan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Henry Morgan in the database of Find a Grave (English)