Dick T. Morgan
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromOklahoma
In office March 4, 1909 – July 4, 1920
Preceded by	Elmer L. Fulton
Succeeded by	Charles Swindall
Constituency	2nd district (1909–1915) 8th district (1915–1920)
Member of the Illinois House of Representatives
In office 1880-1881
Personal details
Born	Dick Thompson Morgan (1853-12-06)December 6, 1853 Prairie Creek, Indiana
Died	July 4, 1920(1920-07-04) (aged 66) Danville, Illinois
Resting place	Rose Hill Burial Park inOklahoma City, Oklahoma
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Ora Heath
Children	1
Alma mater	Union Christian College Central Law School
Profession	Lawyer

Dick Thompson Morgan (December 6, 1853 – July 4, 1920) was an American educator, lawyer and politician who served six terms as aU.S. Representative fromOklahoma from 1909 to 1920.

Born atPrairie Creek, Indiana, a few miles southwest ofTerre Haute, Indiana, Morgan attended the country schools and the Prairie Creek High School. In 1876 he received a bachelor's degree and in 1878 a master's degree both from Union Christian College,Merom, Indiana. He became a professor of mathematics in that college. He then graduated from Central Law School,Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1880.

Morgan was admitted to the bar in 1880 and commenced practice inTerre Haute, Indiana. Morgan served as member of theIllinois House of Representatives in 1880 and 1881. He was appointed register of the United States land office atWoodward inOklahoma Territory, by PresidentTheodore Roosevelt in 1904 and served until May 1, 1908.

Morgan was elected as aRepublican to the Sixty-first and to the five succeeding Congresses. Beginning on March 3, 1909, he represented the 2nd district. In 1915, after redistricting due to the 1910 Census, he represented the 8th congressional district until his unexpected death in 1920. He was once known as the "father of theFederal Trade Commission."

Morgan introduced the first bill to establish such a commission on January 12, 1912, made the first speech on the House floor urging its adoption on February 21, 1912 and reintroduced a slightly amended version of the bill in 1913. He was a member of the Claims, Railways and Canals, Expenditures in the Treasury Department, Public Lands, and Judiciary committees. Morgan also became an expert on Rural Credits, sponsoring the 1916 rural credits law that created the federal land bank system.^[1]

In 1878 he married Ora Heath. Their son, Porter Heath Morgan, was born in 1880.

On July 4, 1920, Morgan died of pneumonia inDanville, Illinois, while returning from Washington, D.C. to Oklahoma.^[2] Dick Thompson Morgan is interred inRose Hill Burial Park inOklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• Morgan's Digest of Oklahoma Statutes and Supreme Court Decisions (1897)
• Morgan's Manual of the United States Homestead, Township, and Mining Laws (1900)
• Morgan's School Land Manual (1901)
• Land Credits: A Plea for the American Farmer (1915)
• Served as President and Treasurer of the Western Investment Co. (El Reno, Oklahoma 1901–1904), the publisher of the periodicalOklahoma Real Estate Register.

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

• United States Congress."Dick T. Morgan (id: M000947)".Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Dick T. Morgan Collection at theCarl Albert Center
• Dick T. Morgan, late a representative from Oklahoma, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate frontispiece 1922

• 1853 births
• 1920 deaths
• People from Vigo County, Indiana
• American people of Welsh descent
• Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma
• 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
• 19th-century members of the Illinois General Assembly

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