Dick Thompson Morgan

Dick Thompson Morgan

Dick Thompson Morgan (born December 6, 1853 in Prairie Creek , Vigo County , Indiana , † July 4, 1920 in Danville , Illinois ) was an American politician . Between 1909 and 1915 he represented the second and from 1915 to 1920 the eighth congressional electoral district of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dick Morgan attended his home public schools and Prairie Creek High School . In 1876 he graduated from Union Christian College in Merom . He later taught mathematics at this school. After studying law at the Central Law School in Indianapolis and his admission to the bar in 1880, he began to work in Terre Haute in his new profession.

Politically, Morgan became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives . In 1904 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to head the Register of the United States Land Office in Woodward in what was then the Oklahoma Territory . He held this office between 1904 and May 1, 1908.

In 1908, Morgan was elected to the US House of Representatives in the Second District of Oklahoma, where he replaced Elmer L. Fulton on March 4, 1909 . In 1910 and 1912 he was re-elected in his district, which he was able to represent in Congress until March 3, 1915 . In the elections of 1914 he ran in the eighth district, which he represented from March 4, 1915 until his death on July 4, 1920 in Congress in Washington . In this district, which he had taken over from Claude Weaver in 1915 , Charles Swindall became his successor, who won the by-election that became necessary after Morgan's death. Dick Morgan died in Danville and was buried in Oklahoma City .

Web links

• Dick Thompson Morgan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

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