George Morgan (July 16, 1816 – September 21, 1879) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was born in

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, the son of William Morgan. The family moved in 1819 to

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. He attended Wilbraham Academy, and then removed to

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, where he became a clerk in a country store. In 1838, he married Almena Tripp (died 1860), and they had six children. After a few years he went to New York City and opened his own business, but lost almost all his savings. About 1846, he removed to a farm in Columbia County. He was a

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from 1849 to 1852. He removed in 1857 to a farm in

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; and in 1861 to the county seat

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. He married Fanny L. Card (died 1877), and they had five children. He was always a

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. He was Mayor of Poughkeepsie, New York from 1869 to 1871; and a member of the

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(11th D.) in

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and

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. He was buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Pine Plains.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444 and 559)
''Life Sketches of Executive Officers, and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York, Vol. III''
by H. H. Boone & Theodore P. Cook (1870; pg. 101ff)
''EX-SENATOR MORGAN'S STATEMENT''
in NYT on April 19, 1877

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, George 1816 births 1879 deaths Democratic Party New York (state) state senators People from Chatham, New York Politicians from Poughkeepsie, New York People from Salisbury, Connecticut Mayors of places in New York (state) 19th-century American legislators