Dick Thompson Morgan

Dick Thompson Morgan (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 election district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

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

Politically, Morgan was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1880 and 1881 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1904 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to head the land registry of the Federal Land Authority (Register of the United States Land Office ) in Woodward in the former Oklahoma Territory. This office he held between 1904 and 1 May 1908.

1908 Morgan was elected in the Second District of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he 1909 Elmer L. Fulton replaced on March 4. In the years 1910 and 1912 he was re-elected in his district, he could represent to March 3, 1915 at the Congress. In the 1914 elections he ran in the eighth district, which he represented between 4 March 1915 until his death on July 4, 1920 in Congress in Washington. In this district, which he had taken over in 1915 by Claude Weaver, Charles Swindall, succeeded him, who decided to become necessary after Morgan's death election for himself. Dick Morgan died in Danville and was buried in Oklahoma City.

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