Civil War Union Major General, New York Governor, US Senator. Born in Washington, Massachusetts, he was in the wholesale grocery business when elected as the Republican Governor of New York, serving 1859 to 1862. A staunch Unionist, during the Civil War, he was commissioned as a Major General of Volunteers on September 28, 1861 by President Abraham Lincoln to give him military authority to go along with the civil authority he held as Governor. Placed as commander of the Department of New York, he served in this duty from 1861 to 1863. He resigned his commission on March 4, 1863, having been elected as a Republican Senator from New York to the United States Senate, an office he served in from 1863 to 1869.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
Family Members
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Jasper Morgan
1783–1869
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Catharine Copp Morgan
1775–1822
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Eliza Matilda Waterman Morgan
1810–1885 (m. 1833)
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Frederick Avery
1796–1878
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Charlotte Elizabeth Avery Williams
1798–1839
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Catherine Avery Morgan Dresbach
1815–1912
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Jasper Avery
1800–1810
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Abigail Talcott Morgan Sherman
1824–1906
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Sarah Gillet Morgan Sill
1833–1870
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Jasper Morgan
1836–1873
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Edwin Denison Morgan
1834–1879
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Frederick Avery Morgan
1838–1841
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Gilbert Henry Morgan
1843–1843
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Caroline Matilda Morgan
1846–1847
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Alfred Waterman Morgan
1847–1848
Flowers
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Records on Ancestry
Edwin Denison Morgan
North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
Edwin Denison Morgan
Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889
Edwin Denison Morgan
U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865
Edwin Denison Morgan
New York Politicians and Postmasters, 1898
Edwin Denison Morgan
Connecticut, U.S., Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
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