William Mitchell Morgan | |
Image Name: | William M. Morgan (congressman).png |
State: | Ohio |
District: | 17th |
Party: | Republican |
Term Start: | March 4, 1921 |
Term End: | March 3, 1931 |
Preceded: | William A. Ashbrook |
Succeeded: | Charles F. West |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1870 |
Birth Place: | Brownsville, Ohio |
Death Place: | Columbus, Ohio |
Restingplace: | Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio |
William Mitchell Morgan (August 1, 1870 – September 17, 1935) was an American politician who served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1921 to 1931.
Born in Brownsville, Ohio, Morgan attended the public schools.He pursued various occupations until 1898, when he moved to Newark, Ohio.He was employed as a laborer and later as a musician.He studied literature and science.He engaged in agriculture, merchandising, and the wool-buying business.He was active in organized labor movements, serving as president of the Newark (Ohio) Musicians' Union.
Morgan was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921 – March 3, 1931).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1930 to the Seventy-second Congress and for election in 1932 to the Seventy-third Congress.
He resumed his former business pursuits.He served as president of the Ohio State Federation of Labor in 1935, resigning the same year to become a member of the state industrial commission, in which he served until his death in Columbus, Ohio, on September 17, 1935.He was interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio.