John Tyler Morgan
U.S. Congressperson
1824 – 1907
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Who was John Tyler Morgan?
John Tyler Morgan 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 and a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. 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 interoceanic canal in Central America.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1824
Athens - Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Jun 11, 1907
Washington, D.C.
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on July 23, 2013
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