Murray Morgan

Murray Cromwell Morgan (1916-2000) was an author and historian of the Puget Sound region. Throughout his life he was also a writer, journalist, and political activist. He was a history teacher at Tacoma Community College.

Murray Morgan was born February 16, 1916 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. His parents were Henry Victor Morgan and Adda Camille Layne Pearne Morgan. His father was a Unitarian Universalist minister and his mother wrote plays for the theater. Henry published his wife's plays and his poetry.

He graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma in 1933. He attended the University of Washington and was editor for its paper, UW Daily. Morgan wrote an article about the prevalence of venereal disease among the university's students, which resulted in him being suspended. He graduated from UW in 1937. Morgan attended Columbia University in New York, where he received a master's degree in communication.

Morgan was a journalist for the regional Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian and national news outlets, including Time and the New York Herald Tribune. He was also a radio personality for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS).

He was a noted historian of the Pacific Northwest, particularly Puget Sound. Some of his most noteworthy works are Skid Road, the "longest-running Pacific Northwest book in print" which was written about Seattle in 1946 and Puget's Sound written about Tacoma. Among other topics, he wrote about the Alaska Gold Rush, the Columbia River, the Aleutian Islands.

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