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1888 AD (search for this): entry morgan-john-tyler
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Morgan, John Tyler 1824-
Statesman; born in Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824; removed to Alabama when nine years of age; received an academic education; was admitted to the bar in 1845; and practised till the beginning of the Civil War, when he entered the Confederate Army as a private.
Subsequently he raised the 5th Alabama Regiment, became its colonel, and was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1863.
After the war he resumed practice at Selma, Ala. In 1876 he was elected to the United States Senate, and in 1882, 1888, 1894, and 1900 was re-elected.
In 1892 President Harrison appointed him one of the American arbitrators in the Bering Sea Court of Arbitration, and in 1898, after the passage of the Hawaiian annexation bill, President McKinley appointed him one of the commissioners to prepare a system of government for the
John Tyler Morgan. islands.
For several years Senator Morgan has been especially conspicuous because of his forceful advocacy of the construction of an inter