William S. Morgan

William Stephen Morgan (born September 7, 1801 in Monongalia County , Virginia , †  September 3, 1878 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1835 and 1839 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia , William Morgan attended public schools in his homeland and then worked in agriculture. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future US President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . In 1832 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress .

In the congressional elections of 1834 Morgan was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1835. After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1839. From 1837 he was chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions . In 1838 he renounced another candidacy.

Morgan served in the Virginia House of Representatives from 1841 to 1844 . Otherwise, he held some administrative positions, including in the Congress administration and the Parliament of Virginia. Between 1845 and 1861 he worked for the Federal Treasury and then until 1863 for the Smithsonian Institution . He spent his old age in Rivesville, West Virginia, and died on September 3, 1878, during a visit to the federal capital, Washington. William Morgan was buried in the local convention cemetery.

Web links

• William S. Morgan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William S. Morgan in the database of Find a Grave (English)