John Tyler Morgan
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United States Senator from Alabama |
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In office March 4, 1877 – June 11, 1907 |
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| Preceded by | George Goldthwaite |
| Succeeded by | John H. Bankhead |
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June 20, 1824 Athens, Tennessee |
| Died | June 11, 1907 (aged 82) Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Democratic |
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 Confederate States of America
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 Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a six-term U.S. senator from the state of Alabama after the war. He was a strong supporter of states rights and racial segregation through the Reconstruction era. He was an expansionist, arguing for the annexation of the Republic of Hawaii and for U.S. construction of an inter-oceanic canal in Central America.
Morgan was born in Athens, Tennessee into a family of Welsh origin whose ancestor, James B. Morgan (1607–1704), settled in the Connecticut Colony. John T. Morgan was initially educated by his mother. In 1833, he moved with his parents to Calhoun County, Alabama, where he attended frontier schools and then studied law in Tuskegee with justice William Parish Chilton, his brother-in-law. After admission to the bar he established a practice in Talladega. Ten years later, Morgan moved to Dallas County and resumed the practice of law in Selma and Cahaba.
Turning to politics, Morgan became a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1860, and supported John C. Breckinridge. He was delegate from Dallas County to the State Convention of 1861, which passed the ordinance of secession.
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