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MORGAN, EDWIN DENNISON (1811-1883)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 833 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MORGAN, EDWIN DENNISON (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.


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