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EDWIN DENNISON MORGAN (1811-1883)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWIN DENNISON See also:MORGAN (1811-1883)  , See also:American See also:merchant and philanthropist, one of the " See also:war See also:governors " of New See also:York See also:state, was See also:born in See also:Washington, See also:Berkshire See also:county, See also:Massachusetts, on the 8th of See also:February 1811 . He was first a clerk and then a partner in his See also:uncle's See also:store at See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, and became See also:head of the New York See also:firm of E . D . See also:Morgan & Co . (formed in 1847) . He engaged in politics, first as a Whig and then as a Republican . In 1849 he was elected See also:president of the See also:Board of Assistant Aldermen of New York See also:City; he was a member of the state See also:senate in 1850-1853 and procured the passage of the See also:bill providing for the See also:establishment of Central See also:Park in New York City; in 1855-1858 he was state See also:commissioner of See also:immigration; from 1859 to 1863 he was See also:governor of New York, being the first Republican executive of the state; in 1863-i869 he was See also: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 See also:National 'Republican See also: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 See also:Civil War he did much to prepare the `state See also:government for it, and from See also:September 1861 to See also:January 1863 he was in command of the military See also:department of New York, with the See also:rank- of See also:major-See also:general of See also:volunteers . He was a liberal donor to See also:Union Theo-logical See also:Seminary, See also:Williams See also:College and other institutions . His collection of paintings and See also:sculpture, much of which had See also:long been loaned to the See also:Metropolitan Museum, was sold in January 1886 .

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