EDWIN DENNISON

See also:

• MORGAN
• MORGAN, DANIEL (1736-1802)
• EDWIN DENNISON MORGAN (1811-1883)
• MORGAN, JOHN HUNT (1825-1864)
• MORGAN, JOHN PIERPONT (1837–1913)
• MORGAN, LEWIS HENRY (1818-1881)
• MORGAN, SYDNEY, LADY (c. 1783-1859)
• MORGAN, THOMAS (d. 1743)

MORGAN (1811-1883)  , American merchant and philanthropist, one of the " war governors " of New York state, was born in Washington, Berkshire county, Massachusetts, on the 8th of February 1811 . He was first a clerk and then a partner in his uncle's store at Hartford, Connecticut, and became head of the New York firm of E . D . Morgan & Co . (formed in 1847) . He engaged in politics, first as a Whig and then as a Republican . In 1849 he was elected president of the Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York City; he was a member of the state senate in 1850-1853 and procured the passage of the bill providing for the establishment of Central Park in New York City; in 1855-1858 he was state commissioner of immigration; from 1859 to 1863 he was governor of New York, being the first Republican executive of the state; in 1863-i869 he was United States senator from New York . He died in New York City on the 14th of February 1883 . Morganwas one of the founders of the Republican party, and was chairman of the National 'Republican Committee in 1856-x864 and in 1872 . He was one of the most efficient and able' of the w'idt'igovernors; even before the 'outbreak of the Civil War he did much to prepare the `state government for it, and from September 1861 to January 1863 he was in command of the military department of New York, with the rank- of major-general of volunteers . He was a liberal donor to Union Theo-logical Seminary, Williams College and other institutions . His collection of paintings and sculpture, much of which had long been loaned to the Metropolitan Museum, was sold in January 1886 .